Lisp Logos
Friday, October 28, 2005
A couple of days ago, Jeremy Smith
asked on c.l.l. about Lisp "logos" that he could put up on his web
site in order to show that his site had been made with Lisp. There were a
few replies; however, Conrad Barski (of
lisperati fame) stole the show when he
announced that he had made a series of attractive
Lisp logos that
he was releasing into the public domain. Here are a few
examples:
In describing the logos, Conrad says:
"Why an Alien Lisp Mascot? To most programmers, Lisp seems like an entirely alien language at first. One thing that I think the Lisp community has failed to do is convince other programmers that this strangeness is not an arbitrary obstacle, but a necessary adjustment that imparts great power to programmers that would otherwise be unattainable. The alien Lisp mascot and quirky logo designs are designed to accentuate the awesome (and, to most people, alien) power that Lisp languages have. At the same time, they show how fun Lisp programming tends to be and that Lisp has wide appeal far beyond the stuffy academia it is sometimes wrongly associated with."The above logos are designed for Common Lisp. Conrad intends to create some for Scheme as well:
"I want to create a complementary set of logos for Scheme, my favorite Lisp dialect. What do you think a Scheme Mascot should look like? For instance, I would think a Scheme mascot would only have two (very well functioning) eyes, in opposition to the multi-eyed, multi-paradigm approach of Common Lisp."For those of you who prefer a more sedate, conservative logo, you can use this tool to create logos like this:
