LOGO VARIATION GENERATOR With some encouragement and feedback from Jeff Wheeler and Eelco Lempsink, I created a "Polymorphic" SVG Haskell Logo in Haskell [1].
This script yields a pile of SVG files and an HTML index showing them off (known to work in Safari 3.0 and Firefox 2.0) [1]: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/143480/Haskell-logo/svg-test.html The above Logo.hs program (or small tweaks to it) should hopefully yield all of the variations of the Winning Logo that Jeff Wheeler posted [2] with one caveat: no text/fonts/the word "Haskell". (Note that I am not advocating that all of these designs be voted on, only showing what variations have been dreamt up thus far... Keep reading for my own design submission.) FINAL VARIATION VOTING Eelco Lempsink agreed with me that getting the community to pin down just the icon/emblem part of the logo (for use on the Haskell wiki, Wikipedia article on Haskell, Haskell reddit, derivative logos, etc.) would be enough work, and better than trying to vote simultaneously on an emblem design AND an official Haskell font presentation. What do people think of this idea? (If folks still feel the need for an official "Haskell" font we could always work out pairing text with the winner of the Logo Variation vote... but I say we worry about this later.) In addition, Eelco said: > I think letting people submit only one entry might be a good > way to limit the options and prevent us from having an exhaustive search in > the design space ;) I agree, and in the spirit of collaboration I am turning my design variation generator program (Logo.hs above) over to the community (public domain, as Jeff Wheeler has done with his winning logo designs) to hack on in the hopes that we will see some nice designs come out of this. If we get enough entries (n >= 2) we can set up a vote for the Final Logo Variation and revitalize the Haskell home page. [3] ONE POSSIBLE DESIGN In the spirit of competition, I created my own take on the purple/teal Haskell logo. (Note that this variation started as output from my program to which I manually added effects in Inkscape; it was not generated by my software, although it could be....) Unfortunately browsers are not as advanced at rendering SVG as Inkscape so I am submitting PNGs (which we probably want in the end, anyway) of my entry: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/143480/Haskell-logo/pngs.html as well as the original Inkscape SVG [4] in the hopes that it will inspire others to submit better variations with different effects---but remember: please only submit a single entry of your best idea. All of these logo variations have sort of melted my brain but I hope the community is still excited to settle on a final logo variation once we see some design offerings. Feedback is appreciated, and thanks to everyone who has contributed designs so far. [5] Jared. [1] The Logo Variation Generator: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/143480/Haskell-logo/Logo.hs I am willing to clean this code up and package it for Hackage, as well as add support for PDF (through Asymptote), if the winning variation is based on this code and the community wants a go-to Haskell-Logo package. [2] http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/ [3] Simulation Haskell.org: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/143480/Haskell-logo/hask.html Simulation Wikipedia article: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/143480/Haskell-logo/wikipedia-hask.html [4] Warning: the drop shadow looks terrible in browsers (Load in Inkscape): https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/143480/Haskell-logo/inkscape3-normal-partround-lambda-col1-256.svg [5] Brian Sniffen (MetaPost): http://evenmere.org/~bts/haskell-logo/ Don Stewart (SVG): http://galois.com/~dons/images/logos/logo-bezier.svg Philip Hölzenspies: (TeX logo!): http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~holzensp/haskelllogo.sty Darrin Thompson (ASCII): http://www.ultraviolet.org/mail-archives/haskell-cafe.2008/msg14574.html and everyone who shared their ideas freely... _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
