Comment by wiseowise 5 days ago
> flask
Off-topic, but I absolutely loathe new Flask logo. Old one[0] has this vintage, crafty feel. And the new one[1] looks like it was made by a starving high schooler experimenting with WordArt.
[0] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Flask_lo...
[1] - https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/_images/flask-na...
the funny thing about the Cracker Barrel brouhaha is that the new one still looked like something you'd find on a pack of matches from a hotel bar in the 70s.
The Cracker Barrel "controversy" seems to have largely been fueled by bots.
> Oddly I liked new coke better.
Fun fact: so did most focus groups and (I think?) blind taste tests when it was just presented as a new drink, but they tended to be horrified by the idea of it actually replacing classic Coke. The problem with that switch was mostly psychological / cultural, not chemical.
Also, Diet Coke, which remains quite popular, is still based on the New Coke formula except with the sweetener swapped out. The no-calorie version of classic Coke is Coke Zero. The Coca-Cola Company has been working to increase Coke Zero's popularity, and it is now much more popular than it used to be, but I think Diet Coke continues to be more popular than Coke Zero even now.
> The Coca-Cola Company has been working to increase Coke Zero's popularity, and it is now much more popular than it used to be, but I think Diet Coke continues to be more popular than Coke Zero even now.
This might be a per-country thing -- Coke Zero has always been more popular in Australia ever since it came out (it can be hard to find Diet Coke in vending machines and for single-bottle sales here). Of course, Coke (and Pepsi) can taste different in different countries but I would say the Aussie one tastes pretty similar to the American one.
ahhh, Max Headroom. Classic memory
reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
I was unaware of the new logo… and I am just realizing for the first time after many many Flask apps… that the logo is not a chili pepper.
> the fonts are wtf. Uppercase 'F' shorter than the lower 'l' and 'k'
Just like in the old one. That is not strange in the slightest, it is a very common feature of typefaces that the ascenders of lower case letters overshoot the height of uppercase. That is one of the ways to distinguish an uppercase i from a lower case L.
> And then the mark. I dont get any of this.
They look to be following the Material Design logo trend that was in fashion a while ago. Following trends in logo design is never a good idea, it makes them look outdated soon.
I take it you’re not from Europe.
I didn't know that they have the new logo before reading your comment. Been 2 years since I last searched flask but yeah the old logo was vintage and I also preferred the old logo and the new logo feels mid/sucks.
The old logo is much better.
New logo is instantly forgettable. Would disappear as an app icon on a phone home screen, forever mistaken for a bank app.
Old logo is impossible to resize and present on any assets that aren't rectangular. Flask isn't a country podunk restaurant
> Old logo is impossible to resize and present on any assets that aren't rectangular. Flask isn't a country podunk restaurant
You're measuring it by irrelevant measures. This is like when all the terrible Western game devs criticised Elden Ring because it didn't have "good UX".
>Old logo is impossible to resize and present on any assets that aren't rectangular.
Who the fuck cares? That never hurt flask from becoming a well beloved widely adopted tidy framework.
And it's trivial to "resize and present" the old log on "assets that aren't rectangular"...
>Flask isn't a country podunk restaurant
Yeah, apparently by the new logo it's a generic mall fast food chain restaurant for people with zero taste
Haha, it is very similar! Spot-on.
Here's Sysco, generic mall fast food distributor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXXQTzQXRFc
https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sysco-Log...
Huh. What most stands out to me about the logo, old and new, is that it clearly depicts a drinking horn instead of a flask.
yikes, that is not a great logo. it has also lost its essence
In fact, when I saw the new logo, the first thing that came to my mind was Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove saying "I deny them my essence."
But, this seems to me the gestalt of modern design. Less less less. Until it is no more.
I also hate the new ones. And most of what modern design pumps out now days.
Counterpoint: The old logo looks like it's for a piece of software that stopped being maintained 15 years ago
Yeah I yearn to go back to flask but the logo is giving me the ick.
Is it just me or there has never been a single logo update in history that actually improved a logo?
An once whimsical corner of web development has lost its charm due to arbitrary trends.
I hope they go Full Cracker Barrel on this:
1. Original logo has country charm and soul.
2. Replaced with a modern soulless logo.
3. Customer outrage!
4. Company (or open source project) comes to its senses and returns to old logo.
https://media.nbcboston.com/2025/08/cracker-barrel-split.jpg
(n.b. The Cracker Barrel Rebellion is sometimes associated with MAGA. I am very far from that, but I have to respect when people of any political stripe get something right.)