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The Disney logo used to start with a weird backwards G
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I mean just look at the thing. A backwards G is obviously not a real letter but that looks like a backwards G. The topic isn't asking if you said it Gisney it's asking if you saw the old rendition of the company name as having a weird backwards G where the D should be. It's obviously a D when you look at it but it also obviously looks like a backwards capital letter G. Just look at Bleen's post where they flipped the image. When mirrored, the D becomes a G because of the way it's stylized.
Or is this some kind of reverse FedEx arrow where some people have always seen the D as a D and are only now waking up to the fact it's designed like a backwards G?
It's based on his signature, which is a stylized cursive D. He was a creative guy, he had a creative signature that grew over time to what we see now as the logo.
You can even see him write the D with his own hand here in this video, you can see he even adds a funky underline:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRpJZWhxso&t=17m49s
You can even see him write the D with his own hand here in this video, you can see he even adds a funky underline:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRpJZWhxso&t=17m49s
Cursive is evil shitYep, I thought it was a backwards G too, always confused the hell out of me but I just accepted it
I hate to break this to you but if you've been writing cursive D's like that you've been doing it wrong
Edit: Found a better example with it in context!
Gisnep for me. For some reason, as a kid I thought it was a foreign company with weird pronunciation that made "Gisnep," "Disney" when spoken. XD
I want to say I was in middle school when I realized it was just a stylized "D" and "y," and I felt dumb for not seeing it sooner.
I want to say I was in middle school when I realized it was just a stylized "D" and "y," and I felt dumb for not seeing it sooner.
Lol I never once in my life even came close to thinking it was a G. I didn't realize this was common. While it isn't a cursive D, I wonder if most of you weren't taught cursive in school in general so it looks weird?
I was going to say this but thought people would think I was weird, thank you for being braver than I. I've always thought the cleaned up version of his handwriting is really pleasant, glad I'm not the only one haha.
It is!
I was absolutely taught cursive in school (I posted something similar to the worksheets I remember from 1st grade, I hated them) so I never thought it was a cursive D, but I am able to see it as both a stylized D and a backwards G. Disney just happened to have a signature style where, when cleaned up and made into a logo, his D's look like backwards G's. If you flip it it's identical to a handwritten G:
You fucks are all lysdexic.
I used to think it was just a symbol that meant Disney. Technically that's what it actually is. At the time I thought it was kind of in the same vein as the symbols at the start of sheet music. I've met like two other people who agreed they never saw it as the "D". It most definitely is and an idealised version of Disney's signature but even now I have to think about it to see it as d.
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It looks weird because I was taught cursive. Like, it doesn't look like cursive D at all and the rest of the letters are not even in cursive.
I had the same problem with a grocery store called Dominion.
I had to force myself to see it as a D.
Thread of hideous old Canadian retail logos.Yes. I did not remotely recognize it as a D, but I somehow knew it represented D in some abstract way I couldn't quite grasp.
I also didn't understand how this was "The Bay" (much clearer than the Disney D, I'll admit). I see it now, but y'know.
I have to consciously tell myself that the letter is a D even today. It looks so strange and all I can see is a G
I don't think it's that people thought it was a G, it's that they thought it was a D that looked like a backwards G. Everyone knew it was Disney, nobody was thinking it was "Gisney" like I've seen suggested, the D just look like a backwards G because of Walt's handwriting.
I'd be curious what the average age is of folks thinking it's a G is. I always just saw it as a stylized D. And for folks bringing up gifs of cursive writing, how much cursive handwriting have you seen in your life? Cursive just means the letters are joined together, it's not a monolithic style.
Prior to personal computers and email being so prolific, it was very common for people to develop their own 'fonts' in their handwriting, and not just ape what they learned in school. I always just assumed that was how Walt wrote his last name.
Prior to personal computers and email being so prolific, it was very common for people to develop their own 'fonts' in their handwriting, and not just ape what they learned in school. I always just assumed that was how Walt wrote his last name.
Was thinking the same thing, this thread is weird.
Never saw it as a backwards G, always looked liike a D to me, just written by someone that didn't lift their hand fast enough.
