Elm / official or unofficial logo

kytrinyx commented 7 years ago

As described in https://github.com/exercism/meta/issues/24, this weekend we're designing proper icons for each of the language tracks on Exercism.

In order to help speed us through this work, it would be helpful to know whether or not the language has a logo, whether official or unofficial, what that logo is, and what the usage rights of it are.

If you know things, awesome! Drop that knowledge below. If you don't but want to help do research, we will be very grateful.

Here's a template for you to fill out:

### Official Logo

### Unofficial Logo

### Link to Logo

### License, Usage Rights

For each heading, please list what you know or find out. If something is irrelevant due to something listed in an earlier heading, say n/a (not applicable).

We did some research a while back, and might have some useful information at the bottom of the README.md. (Look for "Elm icon")

You can see whatever icon we've put together for the track in the img directory of the track. Sometimes this is based on something official, sometimes it's just desperation made tangible. (You'll see why we're working with real designers.)

JoelQ commented 7 years ago

Official Logo

The official logo is the Tangram. It is mostly commonly seen in it's multi-colored version (as seen in the favicon on http://elm-lang.org ) although it is also used in a monochromatic form (as seen in the header on http:// elm-lang.org )

Monochrome:

Color:

Unofficial Logo

The community commonly remixes the Tangram logo in various forms to create custom logos for elm-lang projects, events, or even just for fun.

For example:

http://elm-community.org/

http://www.elmweekly.nl/

https://elmeurope.org/

There's even a library for drawing the official logo and variations programatically https://github.com/ElmLive/tangram-logo

Link to Logo

License, Usage Rights

Both the monochromatic logo (in SVG form) and colored logo (in .ico form) are on the GitHub repo for the elm-lang.org website https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-lang.org. The colored logo also shows up in colored in both SVG and PNG forms in the repo for the package website https://github.com/elm-lang/package.elm-lang.org

Both repos are distributed under the BSD 3-Clause license. Not sure how this affects the usage rights of the images?

Wikipedia thinks the logo does not meets the requirements for copyright because it is simply geometric shapes: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elm_logo.svg

iHiD commented 7 years ago

Ha. This is excellent. Thank you so much for all the detail.

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