I made a logo

[Centril]

http://diesel.rs/ and https://rocket.rs/ have nice logos so I spent a bit of time designing a logo and finally came up with this:

with color:

with "woosh":

and color:

What do you think?

Spoiler:

It's basically \forall and a P

[mulkieran]

It's so comparatively easy to way in on logos that I feel kind of ashamed when I do it, but I do have an opinion. \forall is a good idea. \forall + p makes sense. "whoosh" looks bad. two-colour doesn't really make it more interesting. Maybe there is some talented artist about who could oxidize the logo a bit and give it more character? That would be great!

[Centril]

Here are the illustrator files (for the talented artist):

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/13bvTYumbTWMFvLFyDgDrrYFYaGazAWiM/view?usp=sharing
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ATF-81NIowWgx5Um9rHCdqlQzk7re26M/view?usp=sharing

Some design thoughts I had:

• I went with green to symbolize "all tests passed" =P
• I tried to go with "elegant" and "timeless" with the design.
• Two colors (or gray/black) are to make the P more visually distinct (otherwise you might not see it clearly). (It's actually 3 colors, one is just too close to notice without closer inspection but gives a sense of shade)

[AltSysrq]

First thoughts from me:

• I like the high-level concept.

• The dark grey is almost exactly the same colour as the comment background in the GitHub dark theme. Admittedly other logos, including the Rust logo itself, have the same issue.

• I think the problem with the "whoosh" is that it's the only curved element in the design despite being a minor element. It's also attached to the P which makes it look more like hair to me. Straight lines not connected to the body might work (example).

[AltSysrq]

Just a random idea I had. It replaces the top of the P with a cycloidal gear, and extends the cross stroke in an attempt to get more horizontal balance. (Disregard the exact colour here, I used OpenSCAD to produce this since it was convenient and that's just what it outputs.)

I'm not really sure how I feel about it.

[Centril]

• The dark grey is almost exactly the same colour as the comment background in the GitHub dark theme. Admittedly other logos, including the Rust logo itself, have the same issue.

Maybe that's an illustrator thing? I picked the first color in illustrator that made sense to me =P

• I think the problem with the "whoosh" is that it's the only curved element in the design despite being a minor element. It's also attached to the P which makes it look more like hair to me. Straight lines not connected to the body might work (example).

Someone mentioned this on Discord as well that it looked like "old man hair" ;) I think the "woosh" design is three strikes and out. Here's one based on the straight lines ideas:

I'm not really sure how I feel about it.

It's clearly more Rust-y but also somewhat less timeless;

Here's a version that has more straight lines:

(The "cogs" are probably not perfectly aligned...)