On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 12:02 PM sirgazil <sirga...@zoho.com> wrote: https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/guile-logo-proposal-2020-01-24.png > > Personally, I like the one with the single lambda. > > > What do you think? >
As I mentioned on IRC, my favorites are the 3rd row on the left (red lambda, white background) and the 1st row on the right (yellow lambda, black background. I think the four-lambda versions are too busy, and the two I mentioned obey the heraldic "rules of tincture", which were designed to make a knight's shield or a flag maximally visible. ObDetails: The rules divide the different tinctures (colors) into two groups: the "metals" yellow and white, and the "colors", everything else, and state that two metals cannot be adjacent, nor can two colors. Thus both black (a color) letters on white (a metal) and white letters on black print are fine. So are the red lambda on the white background and the gold lambda on the metal background. But the gold lambda on the white background is metal-on-metal, and the red lambda on the black background is color-on-color. These rules are by no means obsolete: they govern the design of flags and traffic signs to this day. There are exceptions: the U.S. flag has color-on-color where the top four red stripes touch the blue quadrant, but this is considered only a minor violation that doesn't affect visibility. Likewise one version of the arms of God (as invented by early modern heralds) uses only yellow and white, but hey, it's not like anyone will bear *those* arms into battle. Finally, when something on a shield is shown in its natural colors, the rules of tincture can be broken, as in the arms of the Devil: "gules a fess Or between three frogs proper", where the (green) frogs can appear on the red background. John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org A poetical purist named Cowan [that's me] Once put the rest of us dowan. [on xml-dev] "Your verse would be sweeter / If it only had metre And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan." [overpacked line!] --Michael Kay > > > --- > https://sirgazil.bitbucket.io/ > > > > >
