Did Capcom Buy 'Street Fighter 6's' Logo From A Stock Website?
Has the Street Fighter 6 logo been taken off a stock website? A Twitter user has discovered a striking similarity between the hexagon logo and a stock design available to anyone willing to shell out $80 for it.
In a long-awaited teaser trailer, Capcom announced the next installment of its popular fighting game franchise Street Fighter this Monday. The 40-second teaser trailer shows grizzled, bearded and noticeably thicker-set Ryu facing off Luke. At the end of the trailer, the game's rather generic logo, white letters "S" and "F" fitted inside a hexagon, appears.
HERE COMES A NEW STREET FIGHTER.#StreetFighter6 pic.twitter.com/WZGTNqpKRu
— Street Fighter (@StreetFighter) February 21, 2022
Many found the new logo to be simplistic and uninspired, especially compared to the colorful red-and-yellow designs of the previous games every Street Fighter fan is well familiar with. But what barely anyone has expected is that the logo seems to have been purchased off a stock website for less than $100.
Twitter user @nzeropants discovered that the Street Fighter 6's hexagon logo appears to be a minor edit of a vector logo available to anyone on the Adobe Stock website for $79.99. The logo is actually free to be used for non-commercial purposes, but some theorize that Capcom at least paid for it.
https://t.co/uMqeQ3RcDo #StreetFighter6 pic.twitter.com/NZj66KO6b5
— n0pants (@nzeropants) February 21, 2022
After @nzeropants' tweet and another post went viral on Twitter, the page with the logo mysteriously disappeared from Adobe's website, although its cached version is still available.
Controversy aside, people had a lot to say about the logo whether it was taken off stock website or not.
fuck. what an ugly logo for the new street fighter. pic.twitter.com/gQiKqK9IGP
— Papa Meat (@meatcanyon) February 21, 2022
This logo looks like if Street Fighter got six emails. pic.twitter.com/zITUaVCqHj
— Brian Altano (@agentbizzle) February 21, 2022
Street Fighter 6 logo pic.twitter.com/7hFx3RVNUX
— PooruBoy (@Pooru_Boy) February 21, 2022
Damn the Street Fighter 6 Logo Go Hard 💀 pic.twitter.com/pif8h5uFGG
— Xeno (@Xeno_TG) February 21, 2022
Will public humiliation result in Capcom making any changes? Companies bullied into abandoning NFTs over the past months support this case, but only time will tell.
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A Concerned Rifleman
PhasmaFelis
They are similar, but cramming an angular "SF" into a hexagon isn't a stunningly original idea, and there's not many different ways you can do it. Aside from the obvious angled crossbars, the Capcom version has some rounded corners, a thinner hexagon, and the letter thickness looks slightly different.
I'm inclined to think it's coincidence.
Weimario
It looks more like a counter for how much premium currency you have in a free-to-play game, or a logo for a sportswear company.
I don't think "Street Fighter" when I see this, take away the extra stuff and I'd have thought it stood for any number of other things that can be abbreviated to SF (SyFy, simpleflips, etc.)