Ok, I’ll be the first to say it - on mobile the logo strapline looks dinky. So small.
I think this changed a few weeks ago, but it took me so long to pluck up the courage to say anything.
Correct. It was changed a few weeks ago. And for an insanely stupid reason… Are you ready?
The Defold trademark registration covers two things. The first is the logo:
The second is the logo and Defold wordmark which according to the application is defined like this with the DEFOLD text beneath the logo:
Note that it is perfectly ok to put the wordmark to the right of the logo like this:
The problem is that the actual trademark application specifies “beneath” and not “to the right of” and we are currently filing a “declaration of use” document which is a thing you are legally obliged to do to keep trademarks that you have filed. And in order to keep using the logo + wordmark on the forum we have to use the one with the wordmark beneath the logo for a period of time.
Yes, the reason for the change of logo is that stupid… We could file for a change where both “beneath” and “to the right of” or perhaps “next to” is used, but it will cost a fair bit of money that we’d rather spend elsewhere at the moment. We are using the logo + wordmark this way in a couple of other places so we’ll probably switch back to the logo with wordmark to the right on the mobile site soon.
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Oof.
Trademarks work in mysterious ways. Apologies for taking the spotlight off an awesome game engine. As you were!
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So much honesty here yet so much sadness 
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