A Logo Proposal for Smalltalk

Richard Kenneth Eng
2 min readMay 2, 2017

These days, any programming language needs a nice logo if it’s to be cool. Look at the above banner graphic. We have cool languages like (clockwise from the top) Racket, Kotlin, Julia, Haxe, Elixir, Dart, Crystal, Ceylon, and Rust. Other examples are:

Clojure
F#
Go
Haskell
OCaml

Unfortunately, Smalltalk doesn’t have a cool logo. The closest thing we have is an unofficial hot air balloon image:

So I propose a stylized hot air balloon logo as shown below. The problem is: there is no governing body for the Smalltalk language that can give official sanction to this logo. No one speaks for Smalltalk. What can be done about it?

Smalltalk

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