I like the reversed pilcrow — on its own — a lot!

(To me it also suggests that Pandoc is reversing the
hegemony of WYSIWYG “word processors” which I loathe!)

My two (three) worthless coins:

1.  I think the idea that you can use the (reversed) pilcrow from any
     font is an important one. For that reason the logo shouldn’t require
     anything which *requires* flipping, rotating, kerning and the like.
     However in some situations it may be good to be able to simulate a
     reversed pilcrow by flipping a regular pilcrow “on the fly”.

2.  Any graphics editor worth its salt (including LaTeX’s *graphicx*
     package!) should AFAIK be able to flip a text box/object so that you
     can reverse the ordinary pilcrow from any font on the fly. I know
     for a fact that Inkscape can, which is perhaps the most important as
     it is free and open source, since I have flipped and rotated text
     objects containing various Unicode arrows in it not too long ago.

3.  Perhaps the logo could alternatively be rendered a black/dark square
     with a white/light reverse pilcrow, similar to the \[M↓\] logo for
     Markdown used e.g. on Stack Exchange, or as a reverse pilcrow in a
     box of the same color as the pilcrow itself. I’m thinking that it
     looks more like a logo that way. At least it should be a sanctioned
     variant, as should \[⁋\] — a reverse pilcrow in square brackets, to
     make it stand out better. Quite satisfactory “designs” on this theme
     can easily be created without any drawing skills in both LaTeX and
     HTML/CSS.

# HTML/CSS

Note that the colors below are only examples.

     [⁋]{.pandoc-logo .box}

     [⁋]{.pandoc-logo .frame}

     [[⁋]{.pandoc-logo .box} Made with Pandoc]{.made-with-pandoc}

     [
         [⁋]{.pandoc-logo .box} Made with Pandoc\
         <http://pandoc.org>
     ]{.made-with-pandoc}

     /* Square box with pilcrow inside */
     span.pandoc-logo {
         display:      inline-block;
         font-family:  "Noto Serif";
         font-style:   normal;
         font-size:    1.5em;
         line-height:  1.35em;
         width:        1.5em;
         height:       1.5em;
         text-align:   center;
     }

     /* Dark square with light pilcrow */
     span.pandoc-logo.box {
         color:             white;
         background-color:  black;
         /* background-color:  crimson; */
     }

     span.pandoc-logo.frame {
         border: 1px solid;
     }

     span.made-with-pandoc {
         display:  inline-block;
         border:   1px solid;
         padding:  0.5em;
         /* font-weight: bold; */
         font-style: italic;
         font-family: "Noto Sans";
         color: black;
         background-color: white;
     }

     span.made-with-pandoc .box {
         background-color: crimson;
     }

     span.made-with-pandoc a {
         display:  inline-block;
         font-style: normal;
         font-size: 50%;
         width: 100%;
         text-align: right;
         color: crimson;
         text-decoration: none;
     }

# LaTeX

In LaTeX you can, through the *graphicx* package, produce a reversed
pilcrow with `\reflectbox{\P}`, thus reversing the ordinary pilcrow of
whatever font you are using.

The following isn’t *dead* simple, but satisfactory for a quite
sophisticated design:

     ---
     mainfont: Noto Serif
     header-includes:
       - |
         ````{=latex}
         \usepackage{graphicx}
         ````
     ---

     \fbox{\Huge\makebox[1em][c]{\reflectbox{\P}}}

 
\colorbox{black}{\Huge\makebox[1em][c]{\reflectbox{\textcolor{white}{\P}}}}

 
\fbox{\textcolor{red}{\fbox{\Huge\makebox[1em][c]{\reflectbox{\P}}}} 
Made with Pandoc}

Attached are three commands for typesetting a reverse pilcrow in a
colored and/or framed box, black/white by default but allowing custom
colors. Note that the colors are only examples.

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