Instagram – taste the rainbow

“… we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.” – Bill Clinton

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Icon fonts are great. Actually, icon fonts are *too* great… I’d love to slave away on one of my own but don’t see the point when talented people such as Daniel Bruce have already released such amazing work. While using the impressive http://icomoon.io web app I was shocked… *shocked* to discover that of all the social icons available, App.net’s Alpha service was missing. Naturally I had to fix this.

This was probably the first time I’ve studied the Alpha logo. I’m generally a very critical person, so to maintain my sanity I tend to ignore things until I can’t anymore. I won’t outline my issues with the current logo, let’s just say that the requirement of an .svg for my webfont was a good opportunity for me to make a few adjustments.

I had no intention of redesigning the logo, I just wanted to clean up the bevels, widths, and alignment so it *felt* right. I’m sharing the result as an .svg file for everyone to use and abuse, chop and change as they see fit. Below is a comparison of the alpha logo and my changes.

Original on the left. My adjusted logo on the right.

You can download the .svg file from here. I hope you find it useful 😉