Logo for JuliaText

[weijianzhg]

Merry Christmas everyone! Should we have a logo for JuliaText? @malmaud @johnmyleswhite @ninjin @StefanKarpinski What about this one?

[aviks]

Paging @cormullion , our logo builder extraordinaire.

[cormullion]

If it rains this weekend, that's what I'll be doing...:)

Edit

It rained this afternoon... :) Here are a few ideas to get the ball rolling.

It's all Julia code, so it's easy enough to make permutations and combinations...

[oxinabox]

Lets solve this in the next few days/week, maybe yes?

My preference of the ones so far are either of the bottom two of @cormullion 's Prob bottom right

None of them really say language strongly to me. But that one comes closest I think. (Vaguely makes me think of information retrieval more than anything else, i guess apparently I associate lined paper with that)

But I'ld prefer anything over the current gravitar

[aviks]

I could get behind number 4.

My creative skills are nonexistent, but some potential ideas :

• Something with a speech buble?
• The a sound in many scripts?
• The list of languages I'll support in Languages.jl, in their native script:

Code	English Name	Native Name
epo	Esperanto	Esperanto
eng	English	English
rus	Russian	Русский
cmn	Mandarin	官话
spa	Spanish	Español
por	Portuguese	Português
ita	Italian	Italiano
ben	Bengali	বাংলা	210
fra	French	Français
deu	German	Deutsch
ukr	Ukrainian	Українська
kat	Georgian	ქართული
arb	Arabic	العربية
hin	Hindi	हिन्दी
jpn	Japanese	日本語
heb	Hebrew	עברית
ydd	Yiddish	ייִדיש
pol	Polish	Polski
amh	Amharic	አማርኛ
tir	Tigrinya	ትግርኛ
jav	Javanese	Basa Jawa
kor	Korean	한국어
nob	Bokmal	Bokmål
nno	Nynorsk	Nynorsk
dan	Danish	Dansk
swe	Swedish	Svenska
fin	Finnish	Suomi
tur	Turkish	Türkçe
nld	Dutch	Nederlands
hun	Hungarian	Magyar
ces	Czech	Čeština
ell	Greek	Ελληνικά
bul	Bulgarian	Български
bel	Belarusian	Беларуская
mar	Marathi	मराठी
kan	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ
ron	Romanian	Română	24
slv	Slovene	Slovenščina	2.5
hrv	Croatian	Hrvatski	7
srp	Serbian	Српски	8.7
mkd	Macedonian	Македонски	2
lit	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	4
lav	Latvian	Latviešu	2
est	Estonian	Eesti	1.1
tam	Tamil	தமிழ்	70
vie	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	75
urd	Urdu	اُردُو	66
tha	Thai	ภาษาไทย	56
guj	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	50
uzb	Uzbek	Oʻzbekcha	27
pan	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	100
azj	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	26
ind	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	150
tel	Telugu	తెలుగు	85
pes	Persian	فارسی	50
mal	Malayalam	മലയാളം	38
hau	Hausa	Hausa	44
ori	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	36
mya	Burmese	မြန်မာစာ	33
bho	Bhojpuri	भोजपुरी	40
tgl	Tagalog	Tagalog	30
yor	Yoruba	Yorùbá	28
mai	Maithili	मैथिली	15
orm	Oromo	Oromoo	25
ibo	Igbo	Igbo	25
ceb	Cebuano	Cebuano	21
kur	Kurdish	Kurdî	20
mlg	Malagasy	Malagasy	18
skr	Saraiki	سرائیکی	20
nep	Nepali	नेपाली	16
sin	Sinhalese	සිංහල	16
khm	Khmer	ភាសាខ្មែរ	16
tuk	Turkmen	Türkmençe	9
som	Somali	Soomaaliga	17
nya	Chewa	Chichewa	12
aka	Akan	Akan	11
zul	Zulu	IsiZulu	12
kin	Kinyarwanda	Kinyarwanda	10
hat	Haitian Creole	Kreyòl ayisyen	10
ilo	Ilocano	Ilokano	9
run	Rundi	Ikirundi	9
sna	Shona	ChiShona	8
uig	Uyghur	ئۇيغۇرچە	25

[cormullion]

Ha, I’d forgotten about these. I see I interpreted “text” wrongly, since it’s more about language and less about writing...

[weijianzhg]

I like number 4

[cormullion]

I did a few more.

5 I think speech bubbles kind of work - obviously not all language is spoken, but if you have three it suggests language/communication a bit better

6 Speech bubbles look a bit like quotation marks, too...

7 Trying to channel a world/diverse languages/Julia-colored rainbow here:

8 The justification for the purely English text is of course the name of the organization itself... ;)

[cormullion]

@scottpjones There’s a few spare ones here... 😀

[oxinabox]

Number 4 and Number 6 are currently my favs

[weijianzhg]

Happy with number 6 as well. Looks nice! Thanks @cormullion

@aviks @malmaud @ninjin any comments?

[ScottPJones]

I'm very happy with the one I got (and the great blog post!) I also like 4 and 6 The old one, 2, with the spiraling text, is a lot like what I'd talked about for JuliaString. How about a spiral with the color gradient like you did for JuliaString? (instead of just "JuliaText" though, it could say "JuliaText" at the start (where it's largest, and start up at the top), and then have the word "text" translated into many of the languages on that list (separated by a space), spiraling inwards.

BTW, if you all do get a Genuine @cormullion Logo ™️, who would I have to bribe to get to be a member of JuliaText? 😁🤓

[weijianzhg]

Use number 6. Close this for now

[oxinabox]

Sold!

[cormullion]

Thanks! Very nice of you. Now I'm worrying about the jaggies around the edges. :) Later perhaps...

[cormullion]

Before I throw the code away:

using Luxor

"""
    speechbubble(radius, location, offset)
"""
function speechbubble(s, k, o)
    @layer begin
        n = squircle(O, s/2, s/2, vertices=true, rt=0.4)
        a = length(n)
        v = mod1(convert(Int, floor(k * a)), a)
        n[v] = between(O, n[v], o)
        poly(n, :fill, close=true)
    end
end

function textstroke(s, pos, action)
    @layer begin
        translate(pos)
        te = textextents(s)
        move(-te[3]/2, te[4] + te[2]/2)
        textpath(s)
        tp = pathtopoly()
        poly.(tp, action, close=true)
    end
end

@svg begin
    cols = [Luxor.darker_red, Luxor.darker_green, Luxor.darker_purple]
    sethue(cols[3])
    speechbubble(230, 0.14, 1.25)
    sethue("white")
    fontface("TiffanyStd-Heavy")

    fontsize(280)
    translate(0, 140)
    setline(6)

    sethue("white")
    textstroke("”", Point(-30, -10), :stroke)

    sethue(cols[1])
    textstroke("”", Point(-30, -10), :fill)

    sethue("white")
    textstroke("“", Point(10, 70), :stroke)

    sethue(cols[2])
    textstroke("“", Point(10, 70), :fill)
end 256 256

Font is ITC Tiffany Heavy, the fattest quotation marks I could find.