Is it a question? To me? Or just the meaning of the text “xypnox”?
Following are the benefits of choosing it:
- Is short enough
- And it was available
- Is unique enough
- Was available in several places
- Because it can be pronounced
- Did I mention it was available?
- Looks good as text ( xypnox ) somewhat symmetric
Needless to say, it indeed was available and that was the best reason.
Meaning
The Greek word that I finally stumbled upon was έξυπνος (éxypnos). It means smart, clever, ingenious etc in English. Perfect! But the e in the beginning wasn’t too nice. So, I removed the e and It now also meant Awake! Obviously, xypnos was already taken on Gmail. So, I had to improvise again. This time removing the last letter and replacing it with the good old x. And xypnox was finalized.
The logo/icon/wordmark/favicon/symbol/graph
History of the icon.
From the very beginning to variations to a reset to now.
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As is obvious from the variations, the shape is malleable.
I use several variants of the current shape/form in different places. The ones shown above are the ones I liked at that time.