[Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

[Martijn van Steenbergen]

Darrin Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Jeff Wheeler <jeff at nokrev.com> wrote:
>> [1]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo1.png
>> [2]: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo2.png
>>
>>
> 
> Oops, I meant to post on list.
> 
> If you play with the angles and vary the stroke thicknesses you'll
> probably get a friendlier look, vs. the military/airline look these
> have now. The first '>' doesn't have to be the same thickness as the
> lambda.

If you look at fonts: characters in a font aren't all straight either; 
they bend a bit (so that is more than just round corners) and this makes 
them a lot more interesting. Various levels of bendiness yield various 
levels of "playfulness". While I already like this logo a lot, I think 
it could be improved a lot more by making it more "fonty". Note that I'm 
not saying it should be a very playful logo, just a more fonty one... yeah.

Martijn.