Logo: Please use recognizable SQL symbols ';--

[nippip]

First, I love the shortened "PWNED" in the logo!
Being in tech, I'd sure like seeing recognizable SQL of the following symbols ';--
I don't really see a quote symbol (`) or semicolon symbol (;) in your logo and feel like it's really the root & heart of HIBP.
Please consider making these iconic symbols recognizable for "your people" and really anyone who types ;-)
Just link to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Little_Bobby_Tables for those who are curious.
Or make it an easter egg ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[troyhunt]

I think you're the same person that posted on my blog, let me just copy and paste from there: https://www.troyhunt.com/soft-launching-and-open-sourcing-the-have-i-been-pwned-rebrand/#comment-6668511054

To keep those symbols as text would always mean a very compromised logo visually. We really wanted to have something that could be just a favicon or a profile image on social (for example) and still look cool. We just couldn't do that with only text and even if we could, it would only make sense to a very tiny slice of the audience. One of the things I never expected when starting this service was the mass consumer appeal, so when you balance that audience with the history of the symbols and the fact we've been able to retain a stylised version of it, I think we've found the best possible balance.

[nippip]

Understood and thanks for the response.

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