Microsoft Office

[magid]

Realization: the logos are never going to look like English to me.

They're all Hebrew:
Office is a stylized samech.
Word is a shin.
Excel is an aleph.
Powerpoint is a kuf.
And Entourage (whatever that is) is a script shin.
Oh, plus the little people for Messenger, who I assume are Hebrew speakers!

Comments

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

/That's/ why they look weird.

(Entourage is a calendar/email/address book program.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Hee!

(Thanks. I should've just looked it up, I suppose, but I figured if I needed it, I'd know what it was already...)

[thespisgeoff.livejournal.com]

Thank you - now I won't be able to see anything but hebrew, too.

[magid.livejournal.com]

My work is done.

[volta]

Those are supposed to be letters?

[magid.livejournal.com]

To designers who squint a lot.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I've thought that since we got the Office suite that we have on our Macs at home.

Nice to know it's not just me. :-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I've thought it about the Word W and the Excel X for ages; seeing the others brought it home, somehow.

[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

That's why I have iWork.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I don't love having to use these, but I do know Word far too well, which is going to help on a task I'm starting (for which I hope iwork ;-).

[docorion.livejournal.com]

Oh. I could always tell they were some alphabet other than US English; nice to be able to identify them now. Thanks!

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin*
You're welcome!

It's all part of the Hebrew conspiracy. No, wait, that's not quite right!

[rethought.livejournal.com]

So very true!

I'd always thought that, but I'd never really consciously considered it. :)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'd vaguely thought it for years, but it didn't hit me clearly until yesterday, when I was installing it on a new-to-me computer, and the logos were all right there.

Any guesses as to whether the logo designer(s) are Jewish/Hebrew speakers?