GHC Logo

Carter Schonwald carter.schonwald at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 00:42:23 UTC 2020


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 <dyaitskov at 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 <ben at 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
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