Re: SVG logo

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:35:01 +0200,
Michael Banck wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:06:34PM +0200, Kyungjun Lee wrote:
> > ... the Hurd logo at Wikimedia Commons didn't have a transparent
> > background, so I tried to come up with a vector file.
> > 
> > The results have been attached. :)
> 
> Cool!
>  
> > I wanted to do the same for
> > http://www.gnu.org/graphics/hurd_sm_mf.jpg, but it's difficult because
> > the shapes are a bit more subtle. Is there somewhere I can get a
> > larger image, please? Or could there be a font that I could get?
> 
> I don't know which font family has been used there.  Regardless, I am
> not sure we should push that logo a lot, as it capitalizes Hurd as HURD,
> and we tried to get this out of people's heads for some time.

It's done manually in metafont by Stephen McCamant.  See:

http://www.gnu.org/graphics/ahurdlogo.html
 
Thanks,
marcus