Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-24 Thread Thomas Davie
On 24 Dec 2008, at 08:13, Colin Paul Adams wrote: There are a lot of nice designs on the new_logo_ideas page. My favourite by far is Conal's. One thing I noticed - everyone seems to include lower-case lambda in the design, but no-one seems to have replaced the terminal double ell in Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-24 Thread Miguel Mitrofanov
You have to be unnecessarily strict to read the whole word Haskell and not just first one or two letters. On 24 Dec 2008, at 10:13, Colin Paul Adams wrote: There are a lot of nice designs on the new_logo_ideas page. My favourite by far is Conal's. One thing I noticed - everyone seems to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-24 Thread John Dorsey
Quoth Miguel Mitrofanov: You have to be unnecessarily strict to read the whole word Haskell and not just first one or two letters. Not true, if you're looking forward to what may follow Haskell. Cheers, John ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-23 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
My design, entitled Origami-lambda-supernova-warp, consists of an H composed of two identical vertically tiled lambdas warping from a supernova. It symbolizes the warp of the Haskell-lambda away from the O of object-orientation (symbolized by the supernova). Created in Inkscape, then adjusted in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-23 Thread Colin Paul Adams
There are a lot of nice designs on the new_logo_ideas page. My favourite by far is Conal's. One thing I noticed - everyone seems to include lower-case lambda in the design, but no-one seems to have replaced the terminal double ell in Haskell with a double lambda. -- Colin Adams Preston

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-22 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:50:11 -0500, sam lee skyn...@gmail.com wrote: http://i35.tinypic.com/mjon83.png used this: http://www.simwebsol.com/ImageTool/Default.aspx This logo still has not been uploaded to the Haskell logos/New logo ideas

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-21 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Dec 17, at 8:42, Darrin Thompson wrote: X monad could have a variant of this logo too. X= (That's how I originally thought of it, just was too lazy to post it anywhere. Sorry about that.) Or just a lambda with an extra contrasting stroke to make an X (λ' very roughly, if you have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-21 Thread Miguel Mitrofanov
BTW, in Russian the character X (pronounced a bit like English H) is the first letter in Haskell. On 21 Dec 2008, at 21:48, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Dec 17, at 8:42, Darrin Thompson wrote: X monad could have a variant of this logo too. X= (That's how I originally thought of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-18 Thread Ketil Malde
George Pollard por...@porg.es writes: Might be interesting to try angling the ends of the stems to look something more like the guillemot in [1]. I might try this in Gimp but I'm no designer :P If you're on Linux or similar, I recommend Inkscape for this kind of thing. -k -- If I haven't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Might be interesting to try angling the ends of the stems to look something more like the guillemot in [1]. I might try this in Gimp but I'm no designer :P If you're on Linux or similar, I recommend Inkscape for this kind of thing. If you're on Windows, Inkscape also works well for most

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Neal Alexander
m...@justinbogner.com wrote: George Pollard por...@porg.es writes: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 02:47 +, Jeff Wheeler wrote: I love this ASCII-art version. I tried to make a vector version of it in Photoshop, and I came up with this [1] and [2]. Any critiques/suggestions? I'm thinking about a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread minh thu
2008/12/17 Neal Alexander wqeqwe...@hotmail.com: m...@justinbogner.com wrote: George Pollard por...@porg.es writes: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 02:47 +, Jeff Wheeler wrote: I love this ASCII-art version. I tried to make a vector version of it in Photoshop, and I came up with this [1] and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread George Pollard
It has a military feeling I don't like... Might look cuddlier with slightly rounded edges. That's what all the cool kids[1] are doing anyway ;) [1]: http://www.python.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 08:42 -0500, Darrin Thompson wrote: If you play with the angles and vary the stroke thicknesses you'll probably get a friendlier look, vs. the military/airline look these have now. The first '' doesn't have to be the same thickness as the lambda. Just another $0.02

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com wrote: [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png [2]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo2.png Oops, I meant to post on list. If you play with the angles and vary the stroke thicknesses you'll probably

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Regis Saint-Paul
Any critiques/suggestions? I'm thinking about a second version that more obviously defines the second '' with color from the bottom-right part of the lambda. Jeff Wheeler [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png [2]:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Martijn van Steenbergen
Darrin Thompson wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com wrote: [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png [2]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo2.png Oops, I meant to post on list. If you play with the angles and vary the stroke

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread George Pollard
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 21:46 +0100, Martijn van Steenbergen wrote: If you play with the angles and vary the stroke thicknesses you'll probably get a friendlier look, vs. the military/airline look these have now. The first '' doesn't have to be the same thickness as the lambda. If you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Coppin
Jeff Wheeler wrote: [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png [2]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo2.png As others have said: - I very much like the concept of this. It's clean, simple, elegant. Like Haskell! - Yeah, it does look a tad harsh. Maybe curvy

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread George Pollard
Might be interesting to try angling the ends of the stems to look something more like the guillemot in [1]. I might try this in Gimp but I'm no designer :P Here is what I got; I think I chose the wrong yellow :) Based it on the font Diavlo, which is free. attachment: hasklogo.png

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Coppin
Darrin Thompson wrote: What I like about the design is anybody can draw it in 5 strokes and it's unmistakably what it is. Sharpie, pencil, even spray paint all work. You could make your own hat or t-shirt and wear it to an important event, or a wedding. You could tag a rival cube farm wall to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 09:55 +1300, George Pollard wrote: Might be interesting to try angling the ends of the stems to look something more like the guillemot in [1]. I might try this in Gimp but I'm no designer :P Unfortunately, neither am I. :P The curvey version (3rd and 4th images on the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:34:15PM +, Andrew Coppin wrote: - I very much like the concept of this. It's clean, simple, elegant. Like Haskell! But Haskell isn't Clean. (SCNR) Ciao, Kili ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Alexander Dunlap
2008/12/17 George Pollard por...@porg.es: Might be interesting to try angling the ends of the stems to look something more like the guillemot in [1]. I might try this in Gimp but I'm no designer :P Here is what I got; I think I chose the wrong yellow :) Based it on the font Diavlo, which is

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Neal Alexander
To be eligible, you will need to upload them. Entries not displayed here won't be eligible. Do the images really have to be uploaded to the wiki or are external links on the wiki page ok? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread wren ng thornton
Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Ryan Grant wrote: nice. the first is better. in the second, i don't even see the lambda. Thanks the feedback. I just uploaded a new version [1] that is icon-sized, although the font used is Helvetica Neue, which is non-free. I have no free

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Neal Alexander wrote: To be eligible, you will need to upload them. Entries not displayed here won't be eligible. Do the images really have to be uploaded to the wiki or are external links on the wiki page

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Don Stewart
wqeqweuqy: To be eligible, you will need to upload them. Entries not displayed here won't be eligible. Do the images really have to be uploaded to the wiki or are external links on the wiki page ok? External is fine. Just make sure they're visible on the page. Thanks! - Don

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread mail
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[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
Darrin Thompson darrinth at gmail.com writes: My $0.02 us: Apologies for ascii art, and hopefully gmail doesn't munge this: I love this ASCII-art version. I tried to make a vector version of it in Photoshop, and I came up with this [1] and [2]. Any critiques/suggestions? I'm thinking

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread George Pollard
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 02:47 +, Jeff Wheeler wrote: Darrin Thompson darrinth at gmail.com writes: My $0.02 us: Apologies for ascii art, and hopefully gmail doesn't munge this: I love this ASCII-art version. I tried to make a vector version of it in Photoshop, and I came up with

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Ryan Grant wrote: nice. the first is better. in the second, i don't even see the lambda. Thanks the feedback. I just uploaded a new version [1] that is icon- sized, although the font used is Helvetica Neue, which is non-free. I have no free fonts on my Mac,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-16 Thread mail
George Pollard por...@porg.es writes: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 02:47 +, Jeff Wheeler wrote: I love this ASCII-art version. I tried to make a vector version of it in Photoshop, and I came up with this [1] and [2]. Any critiques/suggestions? I'm thinking about a second version that more