In a featured Stack Overflow Meta question, there was a logo of a company, which looks like this:
(The logo might be copyrighted. It is posted here for discussion purposes only.)
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"?