Ashley Yakeley
All of these get one thing right that the current and most of the proposed Haskell logos do not: they don't make any reference to the syntax of the language itself. Doing so seems to miss the point of a logo: it's supposed to appeal visually, rather than semantically. So I'd like to see some submissions that don't use lambdas.
Perhaps something elaborating on the general lines of this: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jon.fairbairn/Haskell-H-arrow.png? (Also .svg if anyone wants to develop it; that's a very quick sketch). It's simple, bold and forward looking ;-). It would need careful choice of colours: make the H blue and the Arrow red and it looks too British, make the H red and the arrow black, and it looks fascist (I suppose there are those who think that might be apposite). And it needs a much friendlier choice of typeface. That's a badge rather than a logo, but we certainly want one of those. Just add the "askell" part to get a logo? -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2008-04-26)