Wave-Themed OS X Banner Goes Up at Moscone West for WWDC 2013

9to5Mac has posted a new photograph showing a wave-themed banner with an X in the middle, similar to the iOS 7 banner that was revealed earlier today. The spartan and minimalistic banners are significant change from the style used in previous years, particularly the OS X banner below.

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The X appears to use the Helvetica Neue Ultra Light font, an extremely thin variant of Helvetica and the same font as the iOS 7 banner.

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DonutHands Avatar
160 months ago
Score: 239 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jrswizzle Avatar
160 months ago
My God, Apple is so unoriginal now.

I agree.....they should be coming up with their own letters and numbers instead of copying the current english alphabet and alpha-numeric characters.

How unoriginal!

:rolleyes:
Score: 177 Votes (Like | Disagree)
rpenzinger Avatar
160 months ago
I guess they finally ran out of cats.

Sea Lion
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Some guy Avatar
160 months ago
OS X Catfish?
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timshundo Avatar
160 months ago
As a designer (and forgetting this is going up at an Apple conference): that is beautiful.
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phillipduran Avatar
160 months ago
First we started with an X. . . Then we made it 25% thinner.

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