GHC Logo

[Dr. ÉRDI Gergő]

The Cat's name should be Hask.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 22:39 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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