GHC Logo

[Richard Eisenberg]

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 <rae at 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.schonwald at gmail.com <mailto: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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