GHC Logo

[Carter Schonwald]

Mark lentzer (I’m almost certainly spelling his last name wrong)

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:47 AM Bryan Richter <b at chreekat.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> [image: image.png]
>
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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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