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Mixed reviews for Instagram's new logo

Adam Mosseri unveiled the geometric sans-serif wordmark, but commenters read it as "instagzam" and Ars Technica called it AI slop.

Rob Beschizza
Aug 18, 2026
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Instagram has rebranded with a new logo, and it's gone in the direction so widely-disliked it had supposedly went out of fashion years ago: geometric sans-serifs. Instragram boss Adam Mosseri explains.

The wordmark at the top of the app hasn't changed in 10 years, so it was time for a refresh. Cleaner and more modern, with references to the original and …

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