It’s been typically mentioned that Thunderbird, regardless of having energetic help for years, has remained a little… Stagnant. The app nonetheless appears to be like a lot like the e-mail consumer that grew to become in style within the 2000s, which isn’t a good thing. Luckily, issues are slowly altering — beginning with a new brand.
Thunderbird has introduced a new visible identification with a new, modernized brand that’s extra according to the fashionable brand presently utilized by Mozilla Firefox. It nonetheless depicts a fowl holding a letter, nevertheless it’s stylized very equally to the Firefox brand. The final brand redesign was in 2018, with the discharge of Thunderbird 60.
The new brand was designed by Jon Hicks, the designer who made the unique logos for each Firefox and Thunderbird, so it’s no shock that it follows the identical total aesthetic.
The Thunderbird group says that you need to start seeing this brand beginning with Thunderbird 115, due for launch later this summer time, and the brand new brand must also land on the official web site and social media accounts step by step. The Mac and iPhone apps (sure, an iOS model is within the works) can have a white background across the brand to match Apple’s design pointers, and Android units can have an optionally available adaptive model that may change shade.
With this brand, Thunderbird desires to sign that large modifications are coming to the e-mail consumer, with a refreshed visible identification being simply the beginning of lots of these modifications. It’s one thing the group has been signaling for months and has been slowly fulfilling.
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