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		cpeterso on Feb 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Redesigning the Windows Logo I think they should have retained the distinctive red/green/blue/yellow colors of the Windows logo. And skipped the parallax. The Metro look has lots of flat, colorful squares that are just crying out to become a Windows logo. See this Windows 8 screenshot, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_8_Developer_Previ...

polshaw on Feb 17, 2012 [–]

Agreed -- it would have been to metro what the windows 1.0 logo was to it's tiled windows. If the colours were deemed too garish, then perhaps varying lightness of one colour.

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