<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "> <a href="http://tmp.barzilay.org/cr.png" target="_blank">http://tmp.barzilay.org/cr.png</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From all the suggestions so far, this is the concept I like the best.</div><div>(Imagine it rendered in the style of the new r-logo).</div><div><br></div><div>Pros: * it is clear it is an R</div>
<div> * it is clear R builds on lambda</div><div> * a black and white version is easy to make</div><div> * it will work in small sizes too</div><div><br></div><div>Who cares about unbalanced parentheses in logos?</div>
</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Hear, hear!</div><div><br></div><div>When people are looking for something to complain about in Scheme, the parentheses are the first thing they point to. Racket is not about parentheses, so I'd prefer towards a logo that DOESN'T have any obvious parentheses (balanced or otherwise). If we build an R from a lambda, the added bow should be sufficiently curvy that "parenthesis" isn't the first thing one thinks of.</div><br><br><div>
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