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...
>

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