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

SIGTYP

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

ACL Logo

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

color-terms

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

Arabic

Adlam

Cherokee

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Cyrillic

Devanagari

Egyptian

Mayan



















Ol Chiki

IPA

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