What Working at Stripe Has Been Like

Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by ghostbrainalpha on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:45PM (#19423251)

This may seem petty but as a former designer, Stripes logo not really having a stripe in it has always really bothered me.

Like... how could they not try harder to make that a focus of their branding?

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by tylerrobinson on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:50PM (#19423291)

Maybe that would have been a little too "on the nose"? I always thought that "stripe" refers to the magnetic stripe on the back of a credit card.

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by mountainentity on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:05PM (#19423444)

I listened to Tim Ferriss podcast with Patrick Collison. They chose stripe as stripe.com was either available or cheap...

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by alphagrep12345 on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:26PM (#19423662)

Yeah, that's true. Look at this quora answer for more info - https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name/a...

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by travisjungroth on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:07PM (#19423458)

Amazon doesn't have a river in their logo.

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by lstamour on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:08PM (#19423475)

Well actually... https://www.freelogodesign.org/blog/2018/09/10/the-amazon-lo...

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by benatkin on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:46PM (#19424471)

That has an interesting error in it:

"This is a good example of why it is import to have a logo that is versatile."

I wonder if the author was considering using the phrase "of import" [1] and decided to be less clever.

1: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/import third definition, import noun (IMPORTANCE)

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by pbhjpbhj on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:37PM (#19425016)

That article doesn't mention the "smile" is an arrow that goes "from A to Z".

I've only just noticed it, I can't imagine it's not intentional though. Mind you I don't spend long looking at logos unless I'm working on them.

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by cabaalis on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:10PM (#19425353)

> The font of the logo as we know it today, along with the yellow line, was adopted in 1998. The yellow line started out curving down and now it curves up.

Is that yellow? It looks more orange to me.

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by travisjungroth on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:26PM (#19426386)

Ok, I love that logo. It's straight '90s Outdoor Education.

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by newobj on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:10PM (#19423491)

They did when they started.

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by mac01021 on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:59PM (#19423392)

The dot over the "i" doesn't count?

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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by chapium on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:26PM (#19423670)

Maybe they dont need to repeat themselves?

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