What is my logo?

The first piece in the graphic is the glyph.

The base of this is three lines, the first two extending from the corners to the center at a 90° angle, and the final one bisecting that angle in the other direction.

This comes from a clock. I was bored one day, and saw the hands pointing like this at around 7:50:15. They obviously weren’t perfect, but I liked the shape and mindlessly doodled it along with some (imperfect) continuations of each line.

I felt like it needed something to take away attention from the inequal distances between each line and its continuation segment, and a curve seemed to occupy the space the best.

The now finalized square glyph to me looked quite a bit like a cursive “E”, so I tried to write the rest of this prototype “ethamck” name off of it.

I used Inkscape to connect first Cantarell to the rest of it, but this was done amateurishly. GIMP’s default “Purples” gradient was used as a background for the glyph whenever it was used as a profile icon.

Some time afterwards, I was reinstalling my OS to remove clutter, and ended up misplacing the original SVG file along with my entire website, made with Eleventy¹.

I was due for a while to replace the logo, but only did it when I began working on this reproduction of the original site. It’s a fairly good reproduction.

This time I created the glyph close to raw with SVG, and used Noto instead of Cantarell, though to make the path dimensionless (unfillable) I ended up only taking half of each letter’s path because Inkscape doesn’t have a very good tracing function.

After manually kerning the text a little bit more, merging some paths, and getting rid of the original cross for the “t”, I had a workable logo that was free of clutter. The glyph is done in 104 bytes of path code.

The most recent change I made after trying to adopt it was moving the line continuations so that the distance between their respective line is more pleasing. I still didn’t use trigonometry, mostly because I want to keep the distances as powers of two.