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mkrl/misbrands

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TLDR

A collection of joke sticker designs for programmers where familiar tech brand logos are paired with a rival company's name, designed for printing on laptops or ordering from a sticker vendor.

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    What It Is
      Sticker designs
      Programming humor
    The Joke
      Familiar logo
      Wrong brand name
    How To Use
      Download images
      Print locally
      Order from vendor
    Origin
      Inspired by
      Sam Beckham sticker
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Download the image files and send them to a custom sticker printing service to make laptop stickers.

USE CASE 2

Order printed versions of the designs from any sticker vendor using the provided image assets.

Getting it running

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In plain English

Misbrands is a collection of joke sticker designs for programmers. Each sticker takes the visual style or logo of one well-known tech brand and puts a rival company's name on it instead. The joke works because the design looks instantly familiar while the name is wrong in a deliberately absurd way. The project was inspired by a single JavaScript sticker created by designer Sam Beckham, which used a similar visual gag. The misbrands collection expands that idea into a larger set covering multiple companies and technologies. The stickers are provided as image files for anyone to print or order from a custom sticker vendor. The README is very brief and addresses three questions directly: yes, you can print them, yes, you can order them from any sticker printing service (though not from the creator), and more designs are possible but unlikely. There is no code in this repository. It is purely a design asset collection. The README does not list which specific brands are included or how many stickers are in the set, though a preview image is linked showing an assortment of designs. With over nine thousand stars, the project clearly landed well with the developer community, likely passed around as a novelty. It is the kind of thing someone bookmarks to eventually get printed for a laptop.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I want to print some misbrands stickers for my laptop. Show me how to download the image files from this repository and what format to send them to a sticker printing service like Sticker Mule.
Prompt 2
Describe the visual joke pattern used in the misbrands sticker collection, then write a prompt I can paste into an AI image generator to create a new sticker in the same style for two tech companies of my choice.
Prompt 3
Which sticker designs are available in the misbrands repository? List them and pick 3 that would work best printed at 3-inch size for a laptop.
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