In a featured [Stack Overflow Meta question](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/412334/self-promotion-in-images), there was a logo of a company, which looks like this: [![Company logo][1]][1] <sub>(The logo might be copyrighted. It is posted here for discussion purposes only.)</sub> I failed to recognize the company name, which is >! dahua (Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd.) One of the highly upvoted comments was > Follow-up question: Is it still self-promotion if most users cannot decipher the company name? ;) Why exactly is it so hard to decipher the company name here? Which design principles were missed? Which design principles work towards a different interpretation, specifically "alhua"? [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/oWYjN.png