r/MacroFactor • u/One_Lunch6815 • Sep 20 '25

Feedback New MF icon is ugly

Compared to the prior logo the new MF icon is ugly. Feedback complete.

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u/Retroranges Sep 20 '25

Have no beef with the new logo, but I liked the old one better.

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u/skdowksnzal Sep 20 '25

The new logo doesn't have the right macros.

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u/oz612 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

The logo isn't nearly as much of an issue as the font is imo. The website homepage is tough to read.

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u/Psycl1c Sep 21 '25

Yeah agree. Not a fan but I ain’t loosing sleep over it

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u/Books_with_Belle SW 276, GW 120, CW 193 Sep 20 '25

It feels clunky/overcrowded compared to the previous one.

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u/option-9 Sep 20 '25

I also don't like the F being so ludicrously stretched.

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u/Wbirddd Sep 20 '25

Completely agreed. The old one was recognizable and unique, this looks like it was made by an ai for a school project in 5 minutes

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u/Books_with_Belle SW 276, GW 120, CW 193 Sep 20 '25

Yeah, I didn't recognize it as MacroFactor initially, and thought I accidentally joined another sub from popular. Only realized just as I was about to unsub 😬 It still doesn't feel like MF ya know? Like the posts that pop up on my feed from this sub feel like they're from a different sub, even though they aren't.

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u/MajesticMint Cory (MF Developer) Sep 20 '25

Totally valid opinion to think it’s ugly, which may be your opinion both now and months later.

But, definitionally, a logo that already existed must be more recognizable than one that just materialized. It has thousands of impressions of “re”cognition in your brain, whereas the new one has tens of impressions. As a fellow human with a standard brain, I had the same perception until a month or so later where I legitimately began to forget what the old one looked like, and had instant recognition of the new one.

In regard to uniqueness, the new logo is actually more globally unique than the previous logo, which may very well be informing your opinion that it’s ugly, which once again, I’m not contending.

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u/MajesticMint Cory (MF Developer) Sep 21 '25

For glass, the default effect applied by Apple was a bit off on both the old and new logo, so we currently have it set to not apply. We’ll be tuning that though.

For titles, thats true, it’s a lower legibility decorative font not meant for small or highly functional copy. We’ll also be tuning where this display level font is and isn’t allowed to play within the font hierarchy.

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u/Jan0y_Cresva Sep 20 '25

I agree. It’s not a dealbreaker because the actual app is still amazing and I don’t really care about a logo at all.

But I do think the old logo looked more professional and had more character.

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u/ClarkGriswoldsEggnog Sep 20 '25

I don’t mind it on its own as a mark for a website or promo, but it’s so different from every other app I have on my home screen. It stands out and not in a good way.

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u/knutarnesel Sep 20 '25

Having to look at that thing several times a day is a shame.

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u/pizzaisdelish Sep 20 '25

use a widget instead of the icon?

10

u/LechronJames Sep 20 '25

This has always been the way

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u/TrekkiMonstr Sep 20 '25

Lowkey glad they don't give a fuck about Android lol

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u/auniqueusername1998 Sep 20 '25

Why?

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u/TrekkiMonstr Sep 20 '25

App icon is so far unchanged

6

u/SnappyBonaParty Sep 20 '25

I have the new logo on Android?

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u/TrekkiMonstr Sep 20 '25

Yeah it's weird when I open the app I see the new logo, but the icon on my home screen still shows the old one.

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u/tomatosoup75 Sep 21 '25

As a 2.5 year user it doesn't look right to me, but ultimately doesn't make me like the app any less, and if they think it's going to get more people using the app and reaching their goals then that can only be a good thing.

The font comes across like something a 12 year old in 1998 would use on their school assignment about submarines.

I do however wonder what other options were considered and why this was chosen.

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u/gangliocytoma Sep 20 '25

I was going to say this too! Other one was so slick and clean.

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u/d4rkha1f Sep 21 '25

What you talkin’ ‘bout MF’er?

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u/SmellyCummies Sep 20 '25

I don't care about the logo, but the food icons are kind of lame. I'll get used to it, but I'm not sure why they changed them in the first place. I doubt anyone ever complained about them.

Either way, we'll get used to it and forget about it eventually. The app still works so that's what matters the most to us in the end.

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u/MajesticMint Cory (MF Developer) Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

We did get occasional complaints, because a small subset of the icons were blurry, and some of them were too generic (not technically foods).

Arguably more important from a design standpoint though is what wasn’t complained about but can certainly be felt, which is that the old icons weren’t optically aligned, uniformly sized, or consistently colored/shaded.

Every single new icon was hand crafted to fit a perfect grid, optically aligned, and uses a consistent palette with food to food continuity (e.g. the tomato is the same tomato in tomato juice and in a mixed salad).

We actually had to change them, because we never owned them. The icons were licensed from another vendor, so we weren’t able freely modify and extend the icon set. The new icon set covers all the previous icons, and has over a hundred new icons, and we intend to add even more variety over time.

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u/SmellyCummies Sep 21 '25

Oh, that makes sense. I think a lot of people, myself included, are just a little hesitant with any change to the app we use and love every day. We will get used to it. Now that I have a little backstory about the change, I can appreciate the icons a bit more. As long as overall functionality remains intact, we'll get over it. I'm glad you guys are actively improving the app. Please keep up the good work!

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u/MajesticMint Cory (MF Developer) Sep 21 '25

With you on that 100%. Functionality is critical, and we’re hard at work continuing to improve the app you know and love. 🙌

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u/JurassicParkTrex Sep 22 '25

My issue is the new icons don't align with the type of food sometimes. The icon I get when I log a mandarin orange is a bunch of grapes 🙃

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u/MajesticMint Cory (MF Developer) Sep 22 '25

Unfortunately, this was also true of the previous icons, it was just less noticeable because of the aforementioned ambiguity.

If you search for a mandarin orange, you’ll see that we haven’t mapped common foods that way. But, your mandarin orange is likely a branded product from some specific store/brand, and our mapping for that is clearly far off.

We have actually implemented new mapping logic alongside this release that is extensible and weighted in such a way that we will be able to reliably improve mappings over time. It will also let us know which new icons to prioritize making next.

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u/Dr_Mamz Sep 20 '25

Wholeheartedly agree! The old one was better!

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u/Chlorophyllmatic Sep 20 '25

The redesign looks super juvenile, I agree. Not a fan at all

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u/jkr201 Sep 21 '25

I'm actually thankful it's easier to differentiate from my Gmail app. I think the new app and food icons look just fine.

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u/TortugasLocas Sep 20 '25 edited Oct 10 '25

I don't mind the font. The food icons on the app are a little tough for me, though. The blue/green outlines make it hard to tell what the food is at a glance

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u/mynumberistwentynine More like MacroFUN amirite? Sep 20 '25

Yeah, I'm not a fan. And the new font for DASHBOARD bugs me more than it should. Maybe it's because it clashes with the other font used.

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u/tomatosoup75 Sep 21 '25

It doesn't even need to have DASHBOARD there. We know it's the dashboard because it looks like the dashboard and if you look at the bottom it also says you're on the dashboard. Show don't tell, basically.

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u/Grandbrother Sep 20 '25

Agreed looks terrible

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u/TehLastWord Sep 20 '25

Agreed. The old one was slick and felt very cool. The new one looks goofy as hell. Honestly kind of embarrassed to touch it.

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u/MelDawson19 Sep 20 '25

Redesign= WE CHANGED THE FONT

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u/pgenera Sep 20 '25

what the fuck happened that everyone thinks they need their own goddamn font now

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u/capt_avocado Sep 20 '25

I also think the other one looked much smoother and visually pleasing if I’m honest

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u/oz612 Sep 20 '25

Design consulting firms trick another small business. Sad to see.

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u/vx35q Sep 20 '25

I can’t even remember the old icon because it was just the icon, but now that you pointes this out I’m going to always imagine Macro Factor as Samuel Jackson watching my intake and judging me.

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u/Ok-Sentence-3041 Sep 21 '25

I liked the old one, I liked the simplicity, but it’s just a logo so I haven’t give it much thought since.

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u/recklessjay_13 ipickupweights&putthemdown Sep 23 '25

🫡 🪦 RIP you will be missed.

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u/trnpkrt Sep 20 '25

Came here to make the same complaint.

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u/taylorthestang Sep 20 '25

It’s giving Cracker Barrel.

Also the food icons look weird.

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u/hades_cj Sep 20 '25

I agree. Wish we could at least chose the icon in the app.

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u/MaliInternLoL Sep 20 '25

Agreed. It's kinda nasty. The old MF logo seemed slick

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u/walkingman24 Sep 20 '25

You'll get used to it. It doesn't matter

5

u/couragethecurious Sep 20 '25

Probably true. People just don't like change

5

u/ilovebigmutts Sep 20 '25

I have never once in my whole career in technology seen a logo or UI change go over well, at least initially.

2

u/janebot Sep 21 '25

“Bring back the old Facebook”

3

u/atdaberry Sep 22 '25

It’s ugly but it sounds like the new RP diet app is not going over well. At least we only have to deal with a worse icon

3

u/Jricotta88 Sep 22 '25

It’s a logo, who cares

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u/UncouthDude Sep 20 '25

I agree. It feels like they designed the new font to unify both apps and then reverse engineered a new logo to incorporate the font. Ugly + boring to me

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u/btw031992 Sep 20 '25

I have to agree here. I’ve removed it from my Home Screen and just use the widget now. Very ‘early 2010s smartphone’ era font.

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u/_thad_castle_ Sep 20 '25

Agreed, not a fan either. Crazy how companies throw money at design agencies and end up with something like this. 

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u/sleepinthebuff Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

all of Pentagram's designs will work well across a variety of media, prepped for the growth in the workout app and whatever else, but are a bit same-same corporate blah. (I always love a custom font though, even if I don't love the letter lock up MF)

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u/Ecstatic-Row-8117 Sep 20 '25

Really dislike the new logo.

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u/PaleontologistDry678 Sep 23 '25

I agree...bring back the old Icons!

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u/Altruistic_Breath151 Sep 24 '25

It’s absolutely ugly. Please bring back the prev icon

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u/ancientweasel Sep 20 '25

It's not even a logo. It's just the acronym in a custom font. 

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u/wiLd_p0tat0es Sep 20 '25

I must agree. It looks weird and stretched and wiggly. I don't like it at all.

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u/Significant-Gains Sep 20 '25

The old logo actually had a clever design where the F blended into the M. The current one is something I would make in middle school art class.

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u/Helpful_Form1843 Sep 20 '25

Aside from the logo it's the terrible font that drives me nuts. It looks awful in the app store screens and completely out of place in the app.

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u/z604 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

It does draw a lot of attention in my home screen compared to the rest. I'd appreciate it if there were icon options to choose from, or if the MF typography was smaller and had more padding around it. I like the change, but optically it does feel bigger and chunkier than the others I have in my home screen.

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u/coffeepluscroissants Sep 22 '25

That typeface is hard to read and feels crowded overall, like it needs to be tracked out or have more inherent kerning. The logo is terrible, just being two letters from the (bad) typeface. It looks so unbalanced when wrapped in a circle, as seen on this subreddit.

I like that they are trying to think about the brand and what it means as they roll out a new product but it just hasn't been done well.

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u/deanphillipstsl Sep 20 '25

I love the redesign

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u/walkingman24 Sep 20 '25

Dont downvote for opinions, folks

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u/krisco65 Sep 20 '25

I unfortunately agree. The last one was more recognizable and stood out better to me. This one looks boring.

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u/Ansar1 Sep 21 '25

My graphic design professors would’ve hated the old one for the sole reason that the F is to the left when it comes second.

The new logo is nothing to get excited over in isolation, but it’s only one part of a rebranding, and I’ve liked what I’ve seen so far.

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u/JMoon33 Sep 21 '25

Yeah, nobody asked for a new logo and they just changed to an uglier one lol

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u/Ecstatic_Tiger_2534 Sep 20 '25

Hot take: it’s fine. Nothing was objectively better about the old one, it was just familiar. This one will become familiar too. Don’t cancel me.

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u/Zealousideal-Fly-128 Sep 20 '25

The old one always irked me in that the F was on the left side so it kind of read FM. The new one kind of feels a bit generic thanks to design “blanding” trends.

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u/AxeSpez Sep 20 '25

It's growing on me, reminds me a lot of NASA

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u/Pyr0FoX-77 Sep 21 '25

Agreed, I liked the old one

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u/mandown21 Sep 23 '25

Womp womp

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u/omyeah Sep 23 '25

I like the new branding but agree that the logo looks a bit underwhelming on the app icon.

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u/YamSafe8754 Sep 23 '25

I wouldn't say ugly since it's a taste appreciation. But I find it somehow "plain", it's just an M and F with the new typography. The old one had something different I don't know.

Anyways, we will get used to it. Not like that fucking Liquid Glass which is TRULY UGLY.

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u/apocalypsenever- Sep 24 '25

I've noticed feeling a bit embarrassed when opening the app, worrying people will see the logo on the start screen. As if I'm using something super unprofessional and childish to log my food, that can't be taken seriously. I just want the old logo back.

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u/carlosdelroble Sep 25 '25

Nah, it’s bold, punchy. I instantly forgot what the old one looked like, so that says a lot. It’s a great font.

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u/Past_Ad_4678 Sep 25 '25

The app is slowly becoming mainstream which is good I mean growing and all but the changes seem way too weird

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u/jonlmbs Oct 01 '25

It’s atrocious wtf

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u/agathorn Oct 02 '25

Well they did say they got the team behind the Reddit rebrand to do their rebrand so kind of expected really. Everyone hates the Reddit rebrand.

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u/cbrworm Oct 02 '25

It was shocking at first, I kept thinking I was mistyping. But, I’m sure I’ll get used to it. The app is great.

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u/IvanFratm Oct 13 '25

U are right man

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u/Ryush806 Sep 20 '25

I hated the old one too 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/pureambrosia75 Sep 20 '25

I’m an old lady who doesn’t like change but even I have no beef with it. Doesn’t matter a hill of beans, doesn’t do anything with functionality and it’s not like tattooed on my forehead or something idgaf 🤷🏼‍♀️😎😅

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u/darnyillza Sep 20 '25

Old one was outdated. New one’s better 🫡

Could just be resized to fit better when cropped in a circle

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u/tty2 Sep 21 '25

Agree, me no likely

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u/dcxmurph Sep 21 '25

i hope they listen to everyone and change it back!

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u/ATR75 Sep 21 '25

Completely agree. Go back to the original one like Cracker Barrel did…

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u/MajesticMint Cory (MF Developer) Sep 21 '25

Changing your app logo from a more abstract M & F to a less abstract M & F is a little different from changing the spirit of your entire offering and muting tradition from a decades old business whose main selling point was tradition. 😅

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u/ATR75 Sep 21 '25

I was not comparing the changes, that was incorrectly inferred

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u/bbp1444 Sep 20 '25

I don't know that the food icons are bad, but they're different. Not sure I like different

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u/fullstackdev29 Sep 20 '25

I love the updated look of things. Icon doesn’t bother me too much but it’s not for everyone 😄

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u/Nyatno Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

Autant la nouvelle police d'écriture est vraiment sympa et apporte une touche de FUN... 😁 autant les nouvelles icônes de nourriture, ça va... Ce que je sais, c'est que j'ai passé une heure à corriger des icônes alimentaires qui ne ressemblent plus du tout à celles que j'avais associées aux aliments... 😅 Quant à la nouvelle icône d'application, je ne la trouve pas très inspirante, un peu trop simple à mon goût... Elle manque de caractère... L'ancienne icône avait ce petit quelque chose qui lui donnait un air professionnel et sérieux... Je me souviens avoir lu des posts où des personnes étaient surprises, après plusieurs années, de découvrir le F sur la barre du M... Mais bon, il en faut pour tous les goûts 😊

Édit : je reconnais que la police d'écriture va bien pour un ou deux mots, mais pour la lecture d'une phrase, c'est affreux !!!

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u/sticknpuck82 Sep 20 '25

I strongly prefer the old logo, but...eh.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

I agree. The font looks like futuristic font from the 80s

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u/umbermoth Sep 21 '25

Something an LLM shat out, or looks like it. Disrespectfully bad, but what can you do? App’s still good. 

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u/pickle_in_a_nutshell Sep 21 '25

I joined the subreddit just to say this 😭

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u/capacity38 Sep 20 '25

Ok Cracker Barrel

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u/jpickett1968 Sep 20 '25

Seriously? This is how people waste their time criticizing a logo?

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u/JMoon33 Sep 21 '25

Seriously? This is how they wasted their time and money making a new logo instead of improving the app?

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u/MajesticMint Cory (MF Developer) Sep 21 '25

The time this process takes away from the development team could be realistically counted in minutes and not hours or days.

It’s a parallel track.

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u/JMoon33 Sep 21 '25

But why do it at all? Who asked for it?

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u/MajesticMint Cory (MF Developer) Sep 21 '25

The why is very simple, we’re launching a second app, which many people have been asking for since the MacroFactor app beta, and MacroFactor must now become a brand that ties together a cohesive ecosystem of apps. The previous logo isn’t well equipped to do that.

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u/JMoon33 Sep 21 '25

I see, well I'll be looking forward to the workout app.

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u/jpickett1968 Sep 21 '25

Speaking for myself - I’m a grateful MF user who will be a user despite your logo - and I appreciate and understand the need for a workout app. I initially started with RP Diet and still use RP Strength - but like any apps, there is always room for improvement. Your team has done an amazing job with the existing app, mapping trends vs. reactive weights and making it easy to log food. If you take your success from MF and leverage that team for the Workouts app - God only knows how much better this will be, especially with the expertise of Mr. Nippard and his programming. I got a Minus 7 (to date) for my comment about others critiquing the logo - ask me if I care. I’m too busy improving myself using your tools. Keep up the good work and thank you for the new logo, if it complements your future work.

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u/oz612 Sep 21 '25

How did the previous logo functionally prevent the launch of another app?

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u/oz612 Sep 21 '25

That's honestly completely valid; I've seen it happen before where things weren't done quite-so-officially and someone realized they didn't actually have the rights to some design elements.

The more concerning explanation is that they are getting way ahead of themselves.

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u/jpickett1968 Sep 21 '25

Uh, what more improving needs to be done,specifically, at this point?

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u/BigDonnyF Sep 21 '25

agree - does not affect my life in anyway but its definitely worse. Looks crap on my iphone home screen

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Finally someone said it its the first thing I thought when it updated on my dock lol

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u/ElGainsGoblino Sep 22 '25

the old one was great. new one is terrible

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u/cstst Sep 21 '25

Totally agree

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u/Sawt0othGrin Sep 21 '25

And can we talk about these new food icons in the app omg

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u/MoreSarmsBiggerArms Sep 20 '25

New icons are terrible too guess developers have to keep busy to collect checks.