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The Disney logo used to start with a weird backwards G
- Thread starter MazeHaze
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Same. Didn't see it as a D until it occurred to me how strange that fucking G thing was and why was it there?
It definitely consumes the entire logo by its presence.
It definitely consumes the entire logo by its presence.
Fascinating. Never saw it as a backwards G and it's really weird to see how someone could. It's awesome how visual perceptions work.
Yep, 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!
Ok, then it's a stylized cursive D.
Why would they make the D a "stylized cursive" D when the rest of the letters don't even come close to being cursive. I don't think that's how cursive works
look at those joined letters. (it's not cursive)
if anything it's written in stylized block capitals (i and y excepted)
Did you read the thread? Not only is this not about cursive, with examples of what proper cursive Ds look like posted, but examples of the D mirrored have been posted twice now. It looks like a stylized G when you flip it. Which means when it's facing the normal way, it looks like a backwards G. It is the letter D, nobody is disputing that, but the way Walt's handwriting looks when cleaned up into a logo makes the D look like a stylized backwards G.
As Scrooge McDuck pointed out, it looks weird because we know what a cursive D is meant to look like. The logo D looks nothing like a normal cursive D. When he actually signed his name, Walt wrote in proper cursive:
But he also signed it with a stylized letter "D" under his signature, examples of which have been posted as well. That D looks like a stylized backwards G when cleaned up and turned into a logo.
Edit: Man I kinda hate the way Era does image quoting
I also looked at that D and just thought "oh, Walt Disney wrote his 'D' weirdly." However, I take umbrage at people here who smugly went "were you not taught cursive" because it simply isn't. Even if you take account of different writing style.
I mean, the point of cursive is to write with a continuous flow, which you can't do with that D, let alone the rest of the word. Cursive doesn't mean "swirly letters", you know.
Is this the logo of a cancelled PS2 action RPGYes. 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.
It's a really odd cursive D. I can see where the confusion comes from and it doesn't help itself there at all. It does look like a backwards G.
I can't say I ever noticed this before, or paid close attention to it, but you aren't wrong.
I can't say I ever noticed this before, or paid close attention to it, but you aren't wrong.
Except some of the "were you not taught cursive" folks are the same ones saying it looks like a G.
I wonder if the folks struggling grew up reading more typed stuff than handwritten stuff, and their only exposure to cursive was in a school setting.
I know Disney is spelled with a "D" but I still see the logo as a backwards "G" and I can't get around that. Haha.
Whether it looks like a G or not has nothing to do with what I'm talking about, though. I'm just saying that the "D" is not cursive. Not stylized cursive; not cursive by other methods of writing.
Like, these are cursive D, even if they're written in a different way and don't resemble each other.
You can write those with one, flowing stroke.
But the Disney "D" can only be written with two strokes. If that's cursive, it's a bad one that's missing the point!
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The "Walt Disney" logo that this infernal D is from is not cursive. The "Walt Disney" handwriting from the beginning of their feature films [which I posted in my last post] is cursive. Also, what Scrooge said ^^
fixed
No,
now it's fixed.
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Ha, yep. You've broken the brains of generations of children, Gisnep.
It's like, I knew it was 'Disney', but it just didn't look like 'Disney'? So my brain symbol associated the 'Gisney' logo with Disney.
So it's like, imagine if instead of "The Artist Formally Known As Prince", he had spelled his name [symbol]RINCE. You would read it as "Prince" but that first letter sure as heck ain't like any normal "P" you've seen before.
I had the same experience as a kid, like you OP. I even thought one of the Wonderful World of Reading logos had a backwards G in Disney. It still haunts me today, lol.
People who think that D is weird have never used a pen to write anything worthwhile.
It literally shows the motions of a liquid pen.
Fix the t, and the I dot, and the s, and the y.
you're better than this.
Shit the D in that fixed version still shows the inkship on the top left.
It literally shows the motions of a liquid pen.
The "Walt Disney" logo that this infernal D is from is not cursive. The "Walt Disney" handwriting from the beginning of their feature films [which I posted in my last post] is cursive. Also, what Scrooge said ^^
No,
now it's fixed.
Fix the t, and the I dot, and the s, and the y.
you're better than this.
Shit the D in that fixed version still shows the inkship on the top left.
Yeah, the smug posts are hilarious to me. It's truly not that important to take such a smug stance on the way people (in this case, mostly kids that didn't know cursive during the time) viewed someone else's handwriting.
Edit: Like posts like this...
Come on lol. It's not that serious at all.
Yes, me thinking your overboard criticism over something so simple that disregards age (or even some possibly not knowing English as their first language) definitely proves you right.
Yes! It took me years and years and years to realize it really was a D all along. I always saw it as a backwards G too.Not really obviously, but when I was a kid I always saw the Disney logo as starting with some weird backwards G treble cleff hybrid thing. I assumed it was some fancy ass cursive that I wasn't hip to yet and didn't question it. I was probably middle school age before I even realized it was really just a D with a little swirl.
Did this happen to anyone else?
This "Gisney" thing pops up every few years and I just don't get it. It very obviously says "Disney" in stylized handwriting. Why the fuck would you think it's a G? It's the most well-known name in mass media probably ever. Like I get thinking it looks kinda like a backwards G but you always get people who claim they thought it actually WAS a G and that makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
If you can't appreciate the simple qualities of calligraphic strokes, what is there to argue?
Why even take such an adamant stance on something you don't understand thoroughly?
Nobody thought it was an actual G. Nobody thought it read "Gisney". Nobody thought a Backwards G was a new letter that made the same sound as a D. We all knew the word was Disney, we just recognized that the D is screwy since it's Walt's stylized handwriting makes it look like a backwards G.
All I did was fix the D to look like the letter D and not a backwards G, which is what the entire thread is about. I don't need to fix the rest of his loopy handwriting because all of the other letters actually resemble the letter they're meant to and the thread isn't about the rest of the letters. The person I was quoting's "fix" didn't actually fix it in a way that made it resemble the letter D. I just got rid of the unnecessary flourish that's the source of all the confusion. Apparently Walt was a fan of Junji Ito.
Also, Walt himself, with an ink pen, wrote his name like this:
Which looks nothing at all like the D in the stylized Disney logo. Even the crazy "D" he puts under his name has little resemblance to the actual letter or the logo.
