[racket-dev] new logo

From: Neil Toronto (neil.toronto at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 14 10:51:08 EST 2012

So do I. Ending it with a dot makes it feel like an unfinished program 
to me, parameterized on a Racket.

Neil ⊥

On 02/13/2012 10:03 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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> I do actually like the combination of lambda and r, though I am sure the color scheme could benefit from some variation.
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> On Feb 13, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Norman Gray wrote:
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>> On 2012 Feb 13, at 14:54, Philippe Meunier wrote:
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>>> For some reason it slightly reminds me of a symbol for some religious
>>> cult or political party, which might or might not be a good thing.
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>> Whoa!  Doesn't it just!
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>> Another thing that occurred to me, on the same model as before, is to go for an almost completely typographical logo.  At<http://nxg.me.uk/temp/lambda-r5.pdf>  is a possibility.  It's just '\r.', really, but with the lambda in a cursive font, the 'r.' in a modern one (Gill Sans), and some pretty aggressive tracking to make it into a unit.
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>> That doesn't have the shinies of other suggestions, but it's obviously very adaptable and (to my aesthetic at least) matches the chiselled restraint of a Scheme.
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>> I think that's exhausted my visual creativity for the day, so I'll shut up now....
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>> All the best,
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>> Norman
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>> Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
>> SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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