Street Fighter 6 Logo Might Just Be Stock Photography
Capcom recently revealed Street Fighter 6 with a teaser trailer. While the developer showed very little of the actual game, fans of the franchise were given a good long look at the logo. Some of them noticed that it looks a lot like stock photography. They turned out to be right.
Street Fighter 6 will be the latest game in a longstanding series which has become famous for its logos. These perfectly captured the feeling of both fighting games and martial arts movies. They were bright, bold, and boisterous. The latest logo has however been panned by players for being rather banal and boring. Capcom has kept its logos consistent in terms of style since the first entry in the Street Fighter franchise came out in 1987. Street Fighter 6 represents a departure from tradition.
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The logo for Street Fighter 6 looks a lot like something that was pulled from a database of stock photography. As the journalist Aurich Lawson pointed out on Twitter, there happens to be a very good reason for this. “The new Street Fighter 6 logo is $80 on the Adobe Stock site,” Lawson remarked. “I don't even know what to say. I knew it was generic, but I didn't realize it was this bad.”
Lawson was in fact referring to a very specific image. “They searched for ‘SF’ on a stock logo site and rounded a couple corners and added the ‘6.’ I cannot.”
The journalist went on to poke fun at what many fans of the Street Fighter franchise have been calling a lame logo. “Ready to make your own fighting game called Street Guardians, Street Puncherz, Street Crash, Street Heist, Street Smashers, or Street Assault? Good news, I've got your logo ready! Only $80. It's a steal.” Lawson uploaded a few
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