I have no idea who or where it came from, but I loved the owl from BayHac 2013. In my mind, it has always been the Haskell mascot (I was pretty new to the community in 2013).
https://wiki.haskell.org/BayHac2013 [image: image.png] On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 5:39 PM Ryan Yates <fryguy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cats are warm and fuzzy. > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:38 AM Richard Eisenberg <r...@richarde.dev> > wrote: > >> On Sep 2, 2020, someone wrote to me privately saying: >> >> > I was thinking Cats for some reason. >> >> Ooh. I'm picturing a cat with its tail wrapped around a lambda, or >> something like that. And Simon PJ does have a cat named Haskell who could >> perhaps be the model. :) >> >> Richard >> >> On Sep 2, 2020, at 10:16 AM, Richard Eisenberg <r...@richarde.dev> wrote: >> >> I'm oddly drawn to the idea of a turtle -- except that turtles are slow. >> But animals are cute. Maybe something involving a fox, given that foxes can >> be clever? Octopuses are also known to be very clever, but maybe GitHub has >> octopuses covered. >> >> On Sep 1, 2020, at 8:42 PM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonw...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Ben, what if we have someone draw a cartoony version of your box turtle? >> i feel like that would be a pretty cute logo! totally ahistorical, but >> would certainly be cute! >> >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 7:51 PM Daneel Yaitskov <dyaits...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it a contest for picking up a new logo? >>> As for me logo "λ GHC" is redundant, because H stands for Haskell and λ here >>> means Haskell. >>> >>> So logo should be GλC. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Daniil. >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 8:50 AM Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> Recently a sponsor asked for a logo for our project. As far as I know, >>>> GHC doesn't really have a consistent logo; the closest that we have had >>>> is the stylized "GHC" on the top of ghc.haskell.org. >>>> >>>> To accomodate the request, I took a few minutes and reworked the >>>> typography of the Thompson-Wheeler Haskell logo for use by GHC. I >>>> couldn't positively identify the typeface used for the "Haskell" text, >>>> but I believe that the extra-bold Cantarell face that I chose in the GHC >>>> variant has a similar feel to the Haskell logo and is free to use. >>>> >>>> I've posted the logo on the Wiki for future reference [1]. Feedback is >>>> very much welcome. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> - Ben >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/logo >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ghc-devs mailing list >>>> ghc-devs@haskell.org >>>> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ghc-devs mailing list >>> ghc-devs@haskell.org >>> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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