The SIGTYP logo was developed by Sabrina Mielke, Edoardo Ponti, Liz Salesky, Richard Sproat, Bill Croft, Siva Kalyan, and Craig Cornelius.
![SIGTYP](images/sigtyp1.jpg)
The logo comprises three essential components:
1) The shape of the logo was derived from the ACL's logo:
![ACL Logo](images/acl.svg.png)
2) The color scheme follows Berlin & Kay (1969) work on color terms:
![color-terms](images/logo/berlin-kay.gif)
3) glyphs (listed below) represent a great variety of writing systems.
Arabic | Adlam | Cherokee | Chinese | ||||
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Cyrillic | Devanagari | Egyptian | Mayan | ||||
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Ol Chiki | IPA | Yi | |||||
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