I just realized something. The pilcrow symbol may actually be unfamiliar enough to many folks that they simply don't know which direction the actual pilcrow symbol faces. The little reversed pilcrow on the button in your screenshot just fooled me, actually --- I immediately thought it might indicate some paragraph formatting tool. Choosing a "filled-in" style pilcrow could just make many users think, "Oh, weird, why is that paragraph symbol there?" or "why did they choose the paragraph symbol as their logo?" In light of that, maybe the plain Vollkorn reversed pilcrow --- which is not filled in, and which looks more like some kind of stylized "P" --- would actually be more readily recognizable as being meant to represent Pandoc. Regardless, I agree though that it probably still doesn't work well as an actual letter "P" to use when spelling "Pandoc". Also, the open (not filled-in) variant does, as has been pointed out by others I think, slightly resemble a pi + "D", which I think John M said was nice to have. -- John On Thu, Jan 2, 2020, at 1:48 PM, allefeld wrote: > Agreed, using the reversed pilcrow as a letter P is not a good idea. > > For the moment I would propose that we just settle on a font so we have *something* for a logo. > > Beyond that, someone with at least some graphic design skills would be needed. > > For me, the motivation was that I needed something to put on a button in an Atom package I'm developing, see attached. > > > > On Thursday, January 2, 2020 at 10:19:40 AM UTC, mb21 wrote: >> I find the pilcrows don’t work very well when used to write Pandoc without some further graphical editing. It just shows that it’s not the letter P of that font. If we’d want to use the pilcrow as part of a wordmark, some qualified person will probably need to do some designing. >> >> Speaking of which, the pandoc website could probably also use a graphical update. Not saying the current state of things is bad, but if we are going to have an official logo, might as well do it properly, with something resembling a visual identify to go along with. Nothing fancy, but something consistent and with proper spacing etc. that’s less historically grown than the current website. >> >> P.S. I know open source projects are known to struggle with design work (probably because it requires skills so different to programming? I don't know...) As a commandline-tool/library, pandoc so far didn't have the need for it at all... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/c3dcb843-c8c9-4ea1-8dcc-7cd742f8f746%40googlegroups.com . > > > *Attachments:* > * Screenshot_20200102_184810.png -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/51729b3b-69b3-4d8d-94e6-dfe2439ef81a%40www.fastmail.com.