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1. isaacs Bluesky 1 min later

   Needs more marquee

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 2 min later

      I can do blink, if that helps

      1. isaacs Bluesky 8 min later

         I believe that you can, but I’m not sure how it’s going to help the logo for you to close your eyes at me.

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3. esmevane, sorry Bluesky 3 min later

   what is hmtl

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 17 min later

      what’s your writing-mode set to

4. Ethan Marcotte Mastodon 4 min later

   @zachleat hyper markup text language

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 5 min later

      @beep out of order rendering might convince those full stack folks …wait

      1. Ethan Marcotte Mastodon 17 min later

         @zachleat —the perfect heist, i’m back in

         1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 19 min later

            @beep a Heist To Morge Language

            1. Ethan Marcotte Mastodon 24 min later

               @zachleat Hocean’s ToMLeven

               slept great last night why are you aski

               1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 30 min later

                  @beep ToMLeven is a good number

5. cultured nyc 🇺🇦 Mastodon 5 min later

   @zachleat Howdy There, Mr. Leatherman!

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 15 min later

      @culturednyc I see what you did there and I chortled

6. Jason Bluesky 6 min later

   Is this made only from the albumen?

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 17 min later

      I can only assume this is egg juice

      1. Jason Bluesky 20 min later

         Egg-like plant based egg juice. I have never had it but the logotype has stuck in my mind for some reason

7. Pamela Fox Mastodon 6 min later

   @zachleat also an animal mascot... hedgehog??

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 16 min later

      @pamelafox YES. so speedy!

8. David M. Wolfman 🐺🎃 Bluesky 9 min later

   [kerning intensifies]

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 18 min later

      I hope so

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10. Digitalwire Mastodon 21 min later

    @zachleat

    use <>

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 29 min later

       @digitalwire maybe something with a diamond ok it needs work but there is something there

11. bkardell Mastodon 26 min later

    @zachleat hotmail?

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 32 min later

       @bkardell yeah it is

12. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 32 min later

    look, I’m not a designer but @digitalwire inspired something

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    3. Digitalwire Mastodon 39 min later

       @zachleat

       make it like

       <html>

       1. radarskiy Mastodon 2 hr later

          @digitalwire @zachleat &#x3C;HTML&#x3E;

    4. westbrook Mastodon 2 hr later

       @zachleat @digitalwire is that hashtag machine learning?

       1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 16 hr later

          @westbrook look, everyone is rightly dunking on my design skill 😅

    5. Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 Mastodon 3 hr later

       @zachleat @digitalwire Woah, branding agencies would charge millions for this paradigm shift in synergies that reimagines the classic brackets in movement, releasing the world's Hyper Text Machine Learning code to its full AI potential. (Yes, they would also rename HTML.)

       1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 16 hr later

          @AlesandroOrtiz @digitalwire oh no

13. Taylor “Tigt” Hunt Mastodon 2 hr later

    @zachleat I can’t decide if I think HTML’s old logo or XML’s logo is funnier:
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_HTML_Logo.svg

    vs.

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extensible_Markup_Language_(XML)_logo.svg

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 16 hr later

       @tigt I really like the XML one 😅

       1. Taylor “Tigt” Hunt Mastodon 1 day later

          @zachleat Is that so?

          1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 day later

             @tigt what have you done

14. Tony Mottaz Mastodon 7 hr later

    @zachleat how about changing the color to default hyperlink blue?

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 16 hr later

       @tonymottaz don’t fingerprint me!!

15. a40YOStudent Mastodon 10 hr later

    @zachleat if you do it like <HTM>L then it stands for html AND css logo as well.

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 16 hr later

       @a40yostudent haha, love that!

16. Tyler Sticka Mastodon 16 hr later

    @zachleat But we already have an orange 5

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 16 hr later

       @tylersticka orange 5 is the name of kid rock’s maroon 5 cover band

       1. Tyler Sticka Mastodon 16 hr later

          @zachleat

17. castastrophe Mastodon 16 hr later

    @zachleat I love HMTL's logo though, maybe we can fork it? 😜

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

       @castastrophe I deserve this 😅

    2. iamdtms Mastodon 17 hr later

       @castastrophe @zachleat With narrow monospace medium typo & softer border-width?

18. Stuart Langridge Mastodon 17 hr later

    @zachleat ok, 28 years later, I have just realised why Hotmail was called Hotmail.

    1. Bramus Mastodon 17 hr later

       @sil @zachleat IIRC it was also initially cased as HoTMaiL

       1. Stuart Langridge Mastodon 17 hr later

          @bramus @zachleat really? crikey. What's worse is that I worked this out for HoTMetaL, the editor, but it never occurred to me about hotmail...!

          1. Stuart Langridge Mastodon 17 hr later

             @bramus @zachleat gonna release a new thing and name it wHaTchaMacaLlit

19. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

    alright, I take everything back — default <h1> is what you get now

    1. Max Fenton Mastodon 17 hr later

       @zachleat [norman rockwell man] "all headings should be a single `heading` tag that dynamically adjusts based on nesting"

       1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

          @maxfenton my sibling in SGML, let me introduce you to the <NEXTID> tag and we can rejoice that it is no longer with us

          1. Max Fenton Mastodon 17 hr later

             @zachleat ... `<next-id>` web component when

       2. Jason Garber Mastodon 19 hr later

          @maxfenton @zachleat The document outline algorithm was good, actually.

          …is a hill I will die on.

    2. @usuario@instancia.org Mastodon 17 hr later

       @zachleat try a rainbow
       some fluffy animals
       that improves any logo

    3. castastrophe Mastodon 17 hr later

       @zachleat haha make it a self-closing tag and it's a political statement about the state of the web lol

       1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

          @castastrophe I quit X and XHTML long ago

          1. Gabriel N Mastodon 18 hr later

             @zachleat @castastrophe was HE behind XHTML?!?!

             [video of gopher turning to the viewer with a shocked expression, three ominous chords play during the short sequence: TAN, TAN, TAAAAAAN]

             1. Gabriel N Mastodon 18 hr later

                @zachleat @castastrophe <brrrrrrrrrrr /> !

    4. Kyle Mastodon 18 hr later

       @zachleat you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

       1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

          @kyle hell yeah

    5. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

       the corners are times angle brackets you nerd sniping weirdos

       1. Christopher Kirk-Nielsen Mastodon 18 hr later

          @zachleat This is starting to be 3D. Have you tried making it into the N64 logo and animated it? Please.

          1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

             @chriskirknielsen how dare you attempt to snipe me further

             *backs away slowly*

             1. Christopher Kirk-Nielsen Mastodon 18 hr later

                @zachleat Hey don't you have a 3D printer? I'm just sayin' it'd be preeeeetty cool!

                1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

                   @chriskirknielsen *runs away screaming*

                   1. Christopher Kirk-Nielsen Mastodon 18 hr later

                      @zachleat (I acknowledge there's no obvious way to seamlessly connect all 4 letters like NNNN, so your running is very justified)

                      1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

                         @chriskirknielsen if AI can get away with >5 fingers per hand…

       2. Darby M. Dixon III Mastodon 18 hr later

          @zachleat

          look at what you made me do

          https://codepen.io/darby3/pen/zxBVegg

          1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

             @darby3 I appreciate what you’ve done here

       3. Sam Stephenson Mastodon 18 hr later

          @zachleat

          1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

             @sstephenson you know what, YES.

             1. Sam Stephenson Mastodon 18 hr later

                @zachleat the bevels are angle brackets!!

                1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

                   @sstephenson YES ×2!

          2. Eric A. Meyer Mastodon 18 hr later

             @sstephenson @zachleat *There* it is.

             1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

                @Meyerweb @sstephenson I agree, consider this matter resolved

          3. Jamie Gaskins Mastodon 19 hr later

             @sstephenson @zachleat This is exquisite. No notes.

             1. Gabriel N Mastodon 19 hr later

                @jamie @sstephenson @zachleat a reflection of our time

          4. Sam Stephenson Mastodon 19 hr later

             @zachleat for posterity:

             1. Max Fenton Mastodon 1 day later

                @sstephenson @zachleat should/could `<span>` be `<abbr title="HyperText Markup Language>" ?

                1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 day later

                   @maxfenton @sstephenson I added that to https://www.zachleat.com/web/html-logo/ !

                   1. Max Fenton Mastodon 1 day later

                      @zachleat I do kindof feel like the logo should link to https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ but also fully endorse attribution.

                      1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 day later

                         @maxfenton I think that’s probably a better default for wide-scale use, yeah

                         1. Max Fenton Mastodon 1 day later

                            @zachleat Pretty darn cool logo that does what it says on the tin. I get that browser support of abbr is bad but I still like the way it weirdly adds dotted underlines and fails all over the place.

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          5. Slasher Calavera 🔪💀 Mastodon 19 hr later

             @sstephenson @zachleat the way this instantly takes me back

       4. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 19 hr later

          I think with this submission from @sstephenson we can consider this matter resolved https://indieweb.social/@sstephenson/116098273597530810

          1. Erik Vorhes Mastodon 19 hr later

             @zachleat @sstephenson — it’s perfect.

       5. Tyler Sticka Mastodon 19 hr later

          @zachleat Are these Cherry MX compatible?

    6. Gabriel N Mastodon 19 hr later

       @zachleat this one looks like Papirus (#snl)

    7. Jay Cruz Mastodon 23 hr later

       @zachleat I feel like it should be self closing. Like an ouroboros. A snake eating its own tail. Sorry, got carried away here.

       1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 23 hr later

          @jaycruz in this logo and when writing an HTML parser, you’d never know it was a void element

    8. Jan van Hellemond Mastodon 1 day later

       @zachleat

20. Nathan Knowler Mastodon 17 hr later

    @zachleat Riffing of @argyleink’s previous attempt (it’s surprisingly hard to search CodePen for “CSS logo” or “HTML logo”, so no link):

    - orange box to pay tribute to the HTML5 logo
    - HTML in the bottom right corner
    - maybe fold the corner to make it have a “document”/“paper” feel?
    - could try to incorporate the <> somehow, but it might not fit the other minimal logos (e.g. CSS, JS).

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

       @knowler @argyleink was there an HTML one? I only remember this https://front-end.social/@argyleink/113392787497597514

       1. Nathan Knowler Mastodon 18 hr later

          @zachleat @argyleink at some point there was a CodePen that featured the CSS one alongside others that included HTML.

          1. Nathan Knowler Mastodon 18 hr later

             @zachleat @argyleink https://codepen.io/argyleink/pen/jOgZpmy

             1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 18 hr later

                @knowler @argyleink I’m on board with this

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22. svenk Mastodon 18 hr later

    @zachleat it "has* a logo https://www.w3.org/html/logo/ however this stems from html5 branding. The good old times...

23. Bob Monsour Mastodon 18 hr later

    @zachleat Looks like a Hat Tip to Machine Learning…the other HTML.

24. Ant Stanley Bluesky 19 hr later

    Looks like one of those startup names where they just dropped the vowels from the word to make name

25. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 19 hr later

    for the official record, with Sam Stephenson’s contribution — we’ve fully resolved this matter over on Mastodon: indieweb.social/@sstephenson...

    1. Bill Criswell Bluesky 19 hr later

       That is as HTML as it gets honestly.

       1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 19 hr later

          peak HTML

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