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Delta Emulator is abandoning its current logo for a different, yet-to-be-revealed mark \u2014 because Adobe thinks Delta\u2019s stylized letter \u201cD\u201d is a bit too close to its stylized letter \u201cA\u201d for comfort. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
It\u2019s not every day you see an app changelog that includes news of a legal threat, but get a load of this:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The situation unfolded quickly, according to emails Delta creator Riley Testut shared with The Verge<\/em>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On May 7th, Adobe\u2019s lawyers reached out to Delta with a firm but kindly written request to go find a different icon, an email that didn\u2019t contain an explicit threat or even use the word infringement \u2014 it merely suggested that Delta might \u201cnot wish to confuse consumers or otherwise violate Adobe\u2019s rights or the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Adobe didn\u2019t wait for a reply. On May 8th, one day later, Testut got another email from Apple<\/em> that suggested his app might be at risk because Adobe had reached out to allege Delta was infringing its intellectual property rights. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe responded to both Apple and Adobe explaining our icon was a stylized Greek letter delta \u2014 not an A \u2014 but that we would update the Delta logo anyway to avoid confusion,\u201d Testut tells us. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The icon you\u2019re seeing on the App Store now is just a temporary one, he says, as the team is still working on a new logo. \u201cBoth the App Store and AltStore versions have been updated with this temporary icon, but the plan is to update them to the final updated logo with Delta 1.6 once it\u2019s finished.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Adobe does have one<\/em> logo that\u2019s pretty similar to Delta\u2019s, and all of Adobe\u2019s logos contain stylized triangles with an almost identically shaped gap. They\u2019ve had such a gap since 1982<\/a> when Marva Warnock, the wife of company co-founder John Warnock, first designed the mark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Adobe adopted a negative space version of the logo in 1993 and has used it ever since, one that\u2019s harder to confuse with Delta:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n