Honestly, the old logo from publication design software company Quark was outdated and ugly but at least it had some unique characteristics. On the left is the new one: pretty modern and cool but
Old Logo
QuarkXPress, the flagship product of this Denver-based company, still holds the dominant share in publication design software but is threatened by Adobe’s InDesign, and handicapped by the dominator’s traditional problem of perceived insensitivity to the customer.
So this logo change is the signal that “honestly, we’ve changed!”
Designer Chris Wood emphasizes the importance of “Quark Green” (Pantone 368), saying “I was looking for something that would take Quark in a completely new direction and represent so many things that Quark has gone through: rejuvenation, growth and rebirth.”
In reality it is just copying and following the leader (Adobe’s InDesign) without rethinking (awkward) structures.
Even worse: Quark’s new logo is basically just the lower-case ‘a’ in the typeface GIRL designed by Dirk Uhlenbrock;
see FOUNTAIN catalogue; or the upper and lowercase Q and A from the typeface PopGod by Rian Hughes.
And Quark isn’t the only company using it as you can see below:
I’m not sure if it makes me want to go pump gasoline/petrol or go grocery shopping. What’s Quark again?
Quark is either curd or a company, famous for its desktop publishing software.
The new logo looks pretty meaningless to me.
The new logo made me queasy. What I find most amusing about it is that no-one else listed uses that symbol to represent “Q”