GHC Logo

[Bryan Richter]

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

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 5:39 PM Ryan Yates <fryguybob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cats are warm and fuzzy.
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:38 AM Richard Eisenberg <rae at 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 <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>
>> 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>
>> 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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