The SIGTYP logo was developed by Sabrina Mielke, Edoardo Ponti, Liz Salesky, Richard Sproat, Bill Croft, Siva Kalyan, and Craig Cornelius.

The logo comprises three essential components:
     1) The shape of the logo was derived from the ACL's logo:

     2) The color scheme follows Berlin & Kay (1969) work on color terms:

     3) glyphs (listed below) represent a great variety of writing systems.

Arabic		Adlam		Cherokee		Chinese
Cyrillic		Devanagari		Egyptian		Mayan
Ol Chiki		IPA		Yi