Delta Emulator is ditching its current logo for a different, yet-to-be-revealed brand name because Adobe believes Delta's stylized letter “D” is too close to its stylized letter “A” for comfort.
It's not every day you see an app changelog that includes news about a legal threat, but listen to this:
The situation developed quickly, according to emails Delta creator Riley Testut shared with The edge:
On May 7, Adobe lawyers approached Delta with a firm but polite written request to seek a different icon, an email that contained no explicit threat or even used the word infringement; It simply suggested that Delta might “not wish to confuse consumers or otherwise violate Adobe's rights or the law.”
But Adobe didn't wait for a response. On May 8, a day later, Testut received another email. of Apple that suggested its app might be at risk because Adobe had reached out to claim that Delta was infringing its intellectual property rights.
“We responded to both Apple and Adobe explaining that our icon was a stylized Greek letter delta, not an A, but that we would update the Delta logo anyway to avoid confusion,” Testut tells us.
The icon you're seeing now in the App Store is only temporary, he says, as the team is still working on a new logo. “Both the App Store and AltStore versions have been updated with this temporary icon, but the plan is to update them to the final logo updated with Delta 1.6 once it's finished.”
Adobe has one logo that is quite similar to Delta's, and all Adobe logos contain stylized triangles with almost identically shaped space. they have had such a gap since 1982 when Marva Warnock, wife of company co-founder John Warnock, first designed the brand.
But Adobe adopted a negative space version of the logo in 1993 and has used it ever since, one that's harder to confuse with Delta:
I certainly didn't think of Adobe when I first saw the Delta logo.
