On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 21:46 +0100, Martijn van Steenbergen wrote: > > If you play with the angles and vary the stroke thicknesses you'll > > probably get a friendlier look, vs. the military/airline look these > > have now. The first '>' doesn't have to be the same thickness as the > > lambda. > > If you look at fonts: characters in a font aren't all straight either; > they bend a bit (so that is more than just round corners) and this makes > them a lot more interesting. Various levels of bendiness yield various > levels of "playfulness". While I already like this logo a lot, I think > it could be improved a lot more by making it more "fonty". Note that I'm > not saying it should be a very playful logo, just a more fonty one... yeah.
Might be interesting to try angling the ends of the stems to look something more like the guillemot in [1]. I might try this in Gimp but I'm no designer :P [1] http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/6/62/Haskell_logo_ideas_falconnl.png
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