GHC Logo

[Richard Eisenberg]

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.schonwald at 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 <dyaitskov at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://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 <https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/logo>
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