Yesterday, Neil Toronto wrote: > I decided to play with this one a bit. I used PLT's lambda, put the "r" > in the same style, and then made it into a "lambda r.acket" banner. > > Here's the deal, though. This one, even just the "lambda r." in a > circle, is pushing complexity. We've been approaching logo design > too much like language design, trying to cram as much semantic > content as possible into a small space or into the fewest shapes. A > logo exists primarily to make a good impression on outsiders. > Filling it with too much meaning works actively against this.
+8.5. My first thought when I saw this was that it goes in the direction of the Haskell logo that looked more like a homework problem than a logo (seems that it's almost extinct now -- found one here: http://blog.webspecies.co.uk/2011-05-31/lazy-evaluation-with-php.html). I tried a whole bunch of things with the version I suggested earlier, but they all suffer from looking like they're trying too much. (There were also similar suggestions, like the pregnant lambda, or the cult symbol, or the mirrored-2 symbol.) I finally went back to the simple thing that Michael did, tweaked a lambda to look a little more like a part of an "R" (pointy serif-like ends, higher hip for the leg). The result looks like a clear R on a brief look, and at the same time the λ is also very clear: http://tmp.barzilay.org/logo/1-=-ipage.html The only thing that bugged me about it was that when it's placed in the usual circle border, the ")" part touches the circle in a bad way. I've played with two solutions that look nice: use a slanted ellipse instead (which also adds a dynamic look), and use a textured background. You can see that too in the same directory. BTW, the images will look bad since they're resized badly, there's an "[original]" link that goes to the unresized version. All of this was following a night of looking through *all* of the fonts on my machine, and choosing a λ and an R to model this on. There's a logo.xcf.bz2 file there if anyone wants to play with this. (The important part is the topmost path.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
