What is going on with the Tesla Robotaxi logo? | Fast Company
“A good logo always tries to convey the brand promise,” says type designer and Hoefler & Co. founder Jonathan Hoefler. “And this one definitely foreshadows the tragic collisions ahead.”
“A good logo always tries to convey the brand promise,” says type designer and Hoefler & Co. founder Jonathan Hoefler. “And this one definitely foreshadows the tragic collisions ahead.”
It's a continuation of the awful cybertruck design language that's barely readable. Just like the new Model Y also leaning into it. This wholesale pivot into this awful design language can only be from one genius.
Q: What is going on with the Tesla Robotaxi logo? A: People keep giving Elon money. That is what's going on with the Robotaxi logo, and everything else Tesla does that prompts you to ask. The nonsense will not stop until Elon is poor.
The entire Tesla brand needs to disappear.
It's all literally just Elon trying to steal the Cyberpunk 2077 style and font and claim it as his own.
It's Elon's extremely poor taste that already manifested itself in Cybertruck - not just the logo, but the vehicle as well.
As the CyberTruck has shown Elon should leave design to people that know what they are doing.
You know, they did a great job in forcing every other automaker to play catch up on new technology but yeah, they can disappear into the history books now.
Guess it looked cool to someone to have a logo "à la Cyberpunk 2077". Just like it looked cool to smash a Cybetruck window on stage.
The font is so bad it looks like it says "Robataxi".
Some real sad shit Motherfucker said he didn’t want to live no more
He could also die let’s have abundance mentality here
I want to rob a taxi
You mean the game where giant corporations do insanely evil things and operate like independent governments run by inhuman sociopaths?
I actually do graphic design for a living and it’s laughable how bad that logo is. It should be conveying a sense of safety/reliability and this idiot decides to go with some “edgy” cyberpunk font.
The "unknown heirs" that are going to start crawling out of the woodwork when that happens will be able to keep Bravo afloat on new reality series for decades.
“And this one definitely foreshadows the tragic collisions ahead.” - not mincing his words there!
It's trying desperately to look "edgy" but instead succeeds at looking cheap and sloppy. Then again, cheap and sloppy matches Tesla's entire line of products, so I guess you can say its up to spec with the rest of their garbage.
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He’s also trying to pump the price so shareholders will approve his 50 billion dollar compensation package. Think the voting starts next Thursday.
So not only is the logo ripped off from Cyberpunk 2077, but the Edgelord Supreme dictated that rides are a flat rate of $4.20. Gimme a fucking break already.
Elon is a gen xer and hasn’t moved past 1999
That's custom lettering, not a font. It's not appropriate but more because it looks quickly scribbled by a graffiti artist like some kind of pop-up t-shirt shop. This is supposed to be carefully considered bit of new technology, not some hobby business a couple of skateboarders run. It has a worrying lack of sophistication that makes you fear the product.
Hah but design is where the genius is. Elon craves the genius label more than any other, but his designs, his ideas, his works, continuously prove that he is no first, or second, order genius. Just a third order genius: someone great at manipulating others into doing shit for them. Just like his hero, Hitler.
Elon's ketamine ego
It is definitely Musk's "how do you do fellow kids" feel all over it.
It’s retro garbage graffiti junk that screams nothing new, nothing significant, nothing futuristic, nothing quality, nothing but a teenage copycat. The TESLA font is great and should be used. Theres is NO need for robotaxi to have a different font especially the same as failed cybertruck. The dirty talentless graffiti font is also extremely polarising. I would not want to ride a piece of junk.
It's not even a logo, really. It's just really bad typography. A logo is a symbol, this is just illegible text
On the plus side, it blends right in with the spray painted swastikas and penises that these cars will inevitably accumulate.
Oh it's just a little something, something Elon scratched up with a ball point pen on the underside of constitution in his down time with DOGE. You like? He thinks it's super cool cyberpunk.
That screams "founder logo." Usually those are replaced before a company turns three. Elon breaks all the rules.
Pretentious
"It's what Bladerunner would drive!"
Bad brand = awesome memestock
New model Y is really: model WHY, as in why did they continue the Cyberturd design??? Flat ugly rear and stupid front light bar that looks incomplete.
Also, why did they only change the ends? It looks identical to the old Ys from the sides.
But did you see how freaking coooooool it is!?
The Cybertruck is what happens when Musk smokes weed while watching the original *Total Recall*. The Robotaxi logo is what happens when Musk smokes weed while playing *Cyberpunk 2077*.
They adopted a "move fast and break things" attitude in the automotive sector. Automakers are less concerned with litigation from potential liability issues than before (but not to the degree that Tesla disregards safety considerations)
The *Ketamine Font*
No, just **kick Elon off the board.**
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