a-h
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11 months ago Wow, no, I never saw your project! Just hearing about it today. 😁
I can tell you about the name...
I wanted a name that was as close to "template" as possible, but far enough away from Go's built in "html/template" package to not confuse people.
In Go, you end up using the name of the repo fairly regularly within your code, since it's how things are namespaced (it's the package name), so I wanted a name that is small, and would also match the file extension.
However, Go developers tend to use a lot of short variable names (t for test inputs, w for an io.Writer, r for a HTTP request etc.), so I didn't want to go under 4 letters.
templ is shorter than template, and shorter when it's in your code. It couldn't be templat, because the e in template is already sort-of silent in my Northern English accent (i.e. templut).
It couldn't be templa, because then you're into "Knights Templar" territory. So... I ended up at templ, which... sounds like "temple".
I would have gone for tmpl, but I kept the e in the name because the tmpl file extension is already commonly used for the built-in Go templates, so I didn't want to clash with that, and also again, with my accent I'd be saying tumple. 😁
So... it sounded like templ, so I originally came up with a logo that's ... sort of a temple, but was told very quickly that it looked terrible, and was maybe even offensive. I'm very much not a graphic designer.
I took a PR from my son, who updated the logo.
https://github.com/a-h/templ/commit/73b850b2d185c00aa8ac25c77048dc10668b3cf5
I think we made it together on his Linux machine, instead of my Mac. IIRC, we just opened up Gimp and, I said I wanted something that looked like HTML, so I thought </> would work because it's sort of what you get when you Google HTML logo:
And then I just went through all the fonts until I thought it looked like enough like a logo, and got back on with some coding! 😂
The colours were picked so they'd work on dark and light backgrounds.
Up until today, people have only mentioned the name clash with the obscure operating system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
Did we basically have the same thought process?
mhanberg
Hi! Apologies, this isn't really an issue, but a question regarding the name and logo of the project.
I am the author of an Elixir HTML DSL, Temple, and I recently came across your project.
My question is, did you previously see my project and mimic the name and logo? They are eerily similar.
Regardless of the answer (I am just morbidly curious! 🤣), it is perfectly fine, I just found it so shocking to see another HTML related project called temple using the Permanent marker font as it's logo with
<and/>I will close this immediately after opening as it's not an actual issue, take care and good luck!
I have pasted a comparison of the logos below.