Discuss and learn Lisp programming of all dialects
This is a read-only archive of lispforum.com. The forum was locked to new users and
posts and is preserved here as static HTML from a database snapshot taken on
2019-09-07.
Here are a couple of ideas for the mini logo that appears on the tab; the first is just the eyes of Conrad's lisp alien, while the second is his lisp flag in a circle, just shrunk down.
Perhaps just the lisp flag itself would be better, for the size available; I'm not actually sure what the resolution is - 16x16 seemed to be too small, while 32x32 looks too big.
At any rate, I think it'd be cool to see some unique design proposals, but I'm no artist.
Okay, so a favicon is only 16x16 pixels. I tried scaling down the 32x32 images, but there wasn't much left when I was done. If you knew that they were already alien eyes, you could definitely recognize them, but to a random bystander with no context, they wouldn't be able to have identified them.
I'm all for changing the site favicon to something interesting, but I'd like to choose something that says "Lisp" to even the casual passerby. I like Conrad's stuff, but it really only works full-size, where you can see what it is, and you can read the text about "alien technology." Without that, it's an inside joke that nobody gets, and one thing I'd like to do with LispForum is keep it accessible to newbies and old-timers alike.
Along the lines of keeping things accessible, I'd also like to avoid lambdas and such. All the functional programming language sites have lambdas as their favicon. If possible, I'd like something distinct for LispForum.
Sooo... if that hasn't totally choked off all the favicon possibilities, I'd very much like to hear any other suggestions that people might come up with.
Love the parentheses-lizard approach! Maybe even another pair of parentheses could make it clearer... what are the tiny symbols scattered around the lizard? Looks like "y o o c" or something.
It'd be possible to shrink that down, but I'm not sure how it would look.
Very 1987.
You could render it in SVG, and it should scale alright then.
Yea, I think I'd rather go for something very 2008 instead. Let's do all we can to portray that fact that Lisp is actually something a modern programmer would want to use, not just a retro-language to be learned for historical reasons only.
I like the Planet Lisp one. How about something similar, but with something to indicate "discussion", e.g.
( )
or
( )
or
( ) (except not so surprised-looking).
theclapp wrote:I like the Planet Lisp one. How about something similar, but with something to indicate "discussion", e.g.
( )
or
( )
or
( ) (except not so surprised-looking).
Nice! That's a possibility, too. I sort of like the surprised one. Yes, Lisp is that blow-your-mind programming language.
findinglisp wrote:I sort of like the surprised one. Yes, Lisp is that blow-your-mind programming language.
Indeed.
Okay, I decided to go for it. I just created a favicon.ico based on the surprised looking smiley icon with parenthesis around its head. You may have to dump your browser cache to see it. I had to shrink things down to make it all fit in the 16x16 space you get for a favicon, so it doesn't have the resolution of the smiley used in the forum itself.
Okay, the current favicon is really working for me. I think we'll keep it. theclapp wins the LispForum award for most improvement to the web site this week. Your steak knives are in the mail. Thanks to everybody else who suggested things, particularly dmgenp's "parenthesis lizard" which was definitely a competitor.
)
)
) (except not so surprised-looking).
Thanks to everybody else who suggested things, particularly dmgenp's "parenthesis lizard" which was definitely a competitor.
