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> Engineering > Just van Rossum

Guido van Rossum's brother. He also designed the "Python powered" logo (and in his main career, had a hand in widely popular fonts like ITC Officina).

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I love the python logo. It is not generic and stands out really well, especially in an era where logo design has regressed so much.

That's a wonderful logo.

Only programming language I can think of with an instantly recognizable logo, other than Java

i'm disagreeing ruby, go, rust, this last two have both mascot and logo that are easy recognized

Yeah I feel like "recall" is being confused with "recognize" here. I'm sure any programming who's been at it for more than a year would also recognize the Rust, Swift, Kotlin, and probably even Elixir logos. But I agree that Python and Java are some of the easiest I can recall despite not having worked regularly with either of those languages in the past year

> other than Java

I never understood what that triangular clown was meant to be. Can't deny it's recognizable.

An even more recognizable logo would be the coffee cup.

In my headcanon Duke is a personified Ouija board planche. Just like the planche is the go-between for the user and the Ouija board, Duke is the go-between for the user and the tablet computer for which Java was originally designed.

It might be a bit of a stretch, but he was originally more than a mascot but a "software agent" through which the user's actions were carried out, a sort of more active version of Clippy.

Swift.

I believe they are talking about this logo: https://i.imgur.com/2HaRHM7.png

Not exactly iconic or wonderful.

There is this logo as well: https://www.python.org/static/community_logos/python-powered...

Source: https://www.python.org/community/logos/

That one wasn’t designed by Just van Rossum.

ah, I was thinking of the blue and yellow double snake logo

Yeah, the double snake logo was made by Tim Parkin.

Ah, Officina, one of my first humanist font loves.

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