[luatex] LuaTeX and LuaLaTeX logos

[Robin Fairbairns]

Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:

> On 8 March 2010 Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>  > On 24-2-2010 14:03, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>  > > Élie Roux wrote:
>  > >
>  > >> While trying to get the \LuaTeX and \LuaLaTeX macros into the
>  > >> LaTeX metalogo package, I tried to make the logos a bit more
>  > >> fancy but still respecting the style of the LuaTeX manual. Here
>  > >> is my attempt. What do you think about it? My personal favorites
>  > >> are proposal 3 for both.
>  > >
>  > > You probably already know how I feel about this: proposal 1 is my
>  > > favorite.
>  > 
>  > Indeed. No fancy shifting needed. It also avoids endless
>  > discussions about how to deal with it in whatever font: just
>  > Lua\TeX as we have been using right from the start.
>  > 
>  > I don't care about the lualatex logo.
> 
> Hans, I fully agree.  This "fancy shifting" is ridiculous, of course.
> But it's actually unavoidable because it was introduced by Knuth and
> we all know that Knuth is infallible. IMO it's (more than) sufficient
> if "Lua\TeX" contains "\TeX".
> 
> In order to avoid endless discussions I think that Taco should decide
> and carve his decision in stone.

a simple initial logo is a discouragement to people who will later (no
doubt) want to add illegibility to it.  the range of tex-related logos
has several excrescences in it, and the smaller the incentive to make
yet more, the better, imo.

so, you can tell where my vote goes.

robin the minimalist.