Just doing a bit of IDEAS BRAINSTORMING here ... maybe it could trigger some better ideas.Pan-FluteI've found this CC-BY 3.0 icon of a Pan flute:
It's not the nicest I've seen, but it renders the idea.
The Pan-flute should be easily reckognized as a symbol of Pan, yet it doens't necessary carry the weight mythology — it can be seen as just a musical instrument.
This symbol would recall the word "PAN" in pandoc, but not really much more. I'm not sure what Pan's (the god) flute was used for, but I gather he is usually considered a shepperd-god.
Tying-In With Existing Symbols/Vocabulary
The issue already came up here: it's good the explore the pre-existing symbols in the (rather wide) field of documents (under which pandoc falls).For example: JFC's Babelmark. Both its name and logo recall the tower of Babel, a symbol which is well associated with the "confusion of languages".While in its context it refers to the confusion among markdown dialects/flavors, it could be taken as a general metaphor for the "confusion of standards" which pandoc aims to solve.The logo is simple, and knowing the name of the tool (Babelmark) the mental association is quick (not so immediate if you are unaware of the tool's name):
Magician HatInflated as it might be, the magician's cylinder producing rabbits, card, or anything else, is a well know symbol representing quasi-magick productions.Maybe pandoc is a bit like the magician hat: it produces all sort of documents, almost auto-magically.The idea is to have some documents coming out of the hat — in a way to represent multi-formats.This is an example idea found on Google (can't actually use this):
Just take the rabbit ears away, and put document icons, and maybe a magick wand.I've found some nice example icons with permissive license:Adopting an AminalAnother approach would be to arbitrarily adopt an animal as mascotte/symbol of pandoc.There is a long tradition in the computer world along these lines — snakes, gnus, squids, etc — so much so that almost every animal is already associated to a programming language or package of some sort.Surely, no one could really dispute this decision any more than one could dispute the right of Python language to use a python as its symbol, or Go lang using a gopher.People like animals, no doubt about it — and Python's snake hasn't so far scared off (nor bitten) anyone that I'm aware of.Of course, we should at least consider an animal that has some characteristics somehow related to pandoc's functionality.I can't think of any animal whose specialization is converting from markdown to html or PDF though. :-(But we might be looking for an animal with sort of intermediary role in nature, like an animal who is known for his symbiotic interactions with other species.Or like bees, which take pollen and covert it to honey; and they are also very industrious, and resemble a swiss-knife when you look at their "embedded tools" for collecting pollen.Links to ImagesHere are some links to Google images (black and white) results:I hope that these ideas might trigger some further thoughts...Tristano
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