On Fri, 2024-11-08 at 09:55 +0000, Michael Kay michaelkay90@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> >
> > At one point when i worked at W3C i requested logos for XML, XSLT,
> > XQuery etc., because HTML 5 had just got one.
>
>
> I always thought the HTML5 logo was culturally quite inappropriate.
> Very American, very masculine.

Yes, i agree. I didn't like the HTML 5 logo at all, we had a very
different draft for XML. It used a soft handwritten font and blue on
white as i recall. There was a cultural problem to resolve, as i
recall, easing a French letterform that was ambiguous in some other
cultures, and we had one go-round before the funding ended.

liam


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