Elon Musk fixed the X logo design optical illusion, and we almost didn't notice

X logo
(Image credit: Will Paterson via YouTube)

In recent years, it's often seemed like Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been too busy auditioning for the role of the next James Bond villain to pay much attention to his various companies. From Cybertruck design fails to the disastrous rebranding of Twitter to X, many of Musk's decisions have seemed capricious and poorly thought out.

The adoption of a generic unicode character as the X logo seemed a particularly half-hearted effort. X quickly aborted attempts to make the logo look more grungy to reflect the personal taste of a billionaire in the middle of a midlife crisis, but it seems that an actual designer may have since tweaked the logo design to at least correct an inbalance caused by an optical illusion.

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Joe Foley

Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.