Sorry to the people who will defend free software unquestioningly, but the logos are <i>bad</i>. That emacs logo is just downright ugly. Even the other one, the stylized E in the circle that dkbrk talks about, is very bad. Both look like some high school student messing around in CorelDraw for a couple of days would come up with. The only reason I can see why the people involved in these projects wouldn&#x27;t get a real designer (meaning: someone who designs for a living) is that they have a lot of technical skills, but very little design understanding. Or they just don&#x27;t care, knowing that in the end its how good the code is that matters, and don&#x27;t want to bother. This extends pretty much to the whole universe of Linux software and distros. So it doesn&#x27;t matter much with Emacs, but it does matter when you want to make a distro that is user friendly.