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[jfbastien]

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ORIGINAL POST (now closed)

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At the very start of the WebAssembly project, @sunfishcode hacked up a logo:

It has nice ideas:

• Arrows coming together to represent "assemble".
• Arrows coming together can also represent compiling other languages to the web.

It would be nice to have something more fancy / web-y / designer-y, and keep it neutral so it belongs to the web and not one of the browser vendors.

Petr Hosek from the NaCl team proposed using the HTML5 technology class icons.

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Reply to this thread with your suggested WebAssembly logo.

We haven't decided how we'll pick the final logo, but it'll definitely be around "stable MVP" time.

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[titzer]

That's a neat metaphor. FWIW I always liked the Borland C++ logo, which
looked like building blocks being put together. "Assembling" can also have
that connotation as well.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:34 PM, JF Bastien notifications@github.com
wrote:

@sunfishcode https://github.com/sunfishcode hacked up a quick logo for
Web Assembly:
[image: image]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/298127/7970689/95aefe64-09f4-11e5-87c8-b67d25f46901.png
It has nice ideas:

• Arrows coming together to represent "assemble".
• Arrows coming together can also represent compiling other languages
  to the web.

It would be nice to have something more fancy / web-y / designer-y, and
keep it neutral so it belongs to the web and not one of the browser vendors.

Petr Hosek from my team proposed using the HTML5 technology class icons
http://www.w3.org/html/logo/, and came up with the following:
[image: image]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/298127/7970659/70880d2e-09f4-11e5-9c7b-c2134ee7f483.png

Any other suggestions?

@lukewagner https://github.com/lukewagner said:

My own personal nit would be that the asymmetry of the arrows bothered me
a bit. Asymmetry can be visually nice, though. Just to throw out an idea:
what if the arrows were symmetric but there were 4 slightly-different
abstract shapes at the four corners: building on the "compiling to the web"
metaphor above, the 4 shapes would represent 4 different source languages
which were being compiled (via the arrow) to the center (the web).

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[jfbastien]

@BrendanEich also mentioned that he like the superheroes assembling vibe, Avengers style.

[lukewagner]

Yes, my nit aside, I overall like arrows pointing together. Building blocks is an interesting idea; I'd be interested if anyone had a concept that matched the HTML5 technology class icon style.

[jfbastien]

Petr Hosek originally came up with the following:

@davidsehr pointed out a horrible flaw in that logo. I like the arrows, but we should definitely avoid inadvertently creating a historically-insensitive logos!

The HTML5 technology class icon idea is still good, though!

[jfbastien]

I talked to some folks here, and they suggest that we hold off having any logo until first launch. That'll allow us to concentrate on tech instead, and let us take time to actually create a logo which is though-out and doesn't have inadvertent meanings!

[Teemperor]

@lukewagner Well, it's version 1.0 (somewhen) and it's abbreviation is WASM. Also, green is not used so far by the typical HTML5 technology icons AFAIK.

EDIT: Licensed under (CC BY 3.0) and based on the HTML 5 Logo

EDIT: Will provide a SVG version with less pixel errors when I have time :p.

EDIT: SVG for the green and purple version.

[jfbastien]

@Teemperor we can't accept a logo without you being in the W3C community group, and with proper copyright attribution. It's also too early to get a logo for now :)

[Teemperor]

@jfbastien I'm already in the W3C community. The logo has to be licensed under the original CC license of the HTML5 logo because it's obviously just the remixed HTML 5 logo.

[Teemperor]

Another design based on the arrows pointing together (for WebAssembly):

Licensed under (CC BY 3.0), created by Raphael Isemann.

And I think a logo that will be changed later is better than no logo at all :)

[lawnsea]

[cihadturhan]

Here are my 3 mins shots.