Re:Haskell logo redesign
by apgwoz on Sunday December 28, 2008 @05:49PM
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There are some horrid logos in there, and some very well done ones as well. My favorite: http://media.nokrev.com/junk/haskell-logos/logo9.png
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Looks like Amtrak:
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2000/amtrak%20old.gif
Yeah, my wife's immediate reaction to that one was "so it will do as well as Amtrak?"
Great logo!
Personally, my first impression is that it looks like a subway system's logo: you have arrows on the left to designate travelling, rails on the right, and the various strokes remind me of the complexity of the interconnected lines of a subway system.
Just a thought.
Strong agree. Sharp, professional.
But it has nothing to do with Haskell in particular... to most people, this just means greater than, lambda, equal to. This is doubly confusing, because >= usually means "greater than or equal to".
I agree that simplicity is very important, I like this one best: http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/2/21/Haskell-apankrat.png
It's not '>=' it's '>>=' the Haskell monad binding operator.
(I also agree, that logo is pure awesomeness)
I know, but most people don't. Your logo can't be designed only for people who know the language.
Most people think >λ= means "greater than" "lambda" "equals", not a clever play on monad binding op and lambda...
Perhaps you are right that for most people the logo is meaningless. However, I find it looks like a fusion of >>= (Haskell's binding operator) and λ (the symbol of functional programming).