Tell me what you think about reality blurred—and see our newly refined logo!

Hello, friends! Today, a bit of site news, and my annual request for your candid feedback.

First, the news: You may have noticed that reality blurred’s logo has been tweaked slightly. It has a slightly more modern logomark, and a new typeface for the words.

The new logotype is set in a customized version of Titillium, which is an open source font designed by a group of students—a collaborative effort that mirrors what it takes to produce reality TV, and how we watch together as a community.

It’s the work of Rosie Lin, a designer and illustrator who you can find on Instagram.

I thought that reality blurred’s logo looked a little outdated, so I reached out to Rosie, who worked with me to try all kinds of new possibilities.

I loved several of the creative designs she came up with, though for the needs of the modern web (being able to shrink the logo down to 16 pixels but also have it work on t-shirts), we iterated until we ended up much closer to the start than I thought we would.

But now, reality blurred has a modified, streamlined version of its previous identity, and I’m thrilled with it.

The 2024 reality blurred logo refresh

In case you have not encountered my convoluted thinking about the logo before, the fire is illuminating the “real” in the word “reality,” illustrating what I try to do in my work.

For even more metaphor, that fire is both a nod to Survivor—which kicked off this modern wave of reality TV, a few weeks before reality blurred debuted—and to the fire in Plato’s allegory of the cave. That fire casts light onto objects that project shadows onto a wall that people see and think are reality (here’s an illustration), kind of like how reality TV shows give us a version of reality.

Anyway, I love the new logo and hope you do, too! And if you don’t—or if there are other things bothering and/or delighting you about reality blurred—I invite you to spend a few moments with the form below.

Every year at this time, I ask for your help in the form of feedback. I read every comment, and look at the aggregate data, and that helps me plan for the next year, and decide what to spend time and resources on.

The handy, anonymous form is below, and I thank you in advance for not just reading these words and being part of this community, but taking some time to share your thoughts.

The 2024 survey!