# Fortran logo from 1987

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**Created:** [November 19, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827 "2023-11-19T16:58:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacobwilliams](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/jacobwilliams/32/10_2.png) [@jacobwilliams](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/jacobwilliams)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/1 "2023-11-19T16:58:17Z")

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I found this in this document from 1987:

> **[S8.104.pdf](https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/87/S8.104.pdf)**
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> 19.90 MB

 ![screenshot](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/2X/7/75bf6a171e89d417e7673ea5b752bafcc6d180f0.png)

The first attempt at a Fortran logo? 🙂

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**Author:** ![mecej4](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/mecej4/32/855_2.png) [@mecej4](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/mecej4)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/2 "2023-11-19T19:35:20Z")

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As a more modern version we could use a Möbius strip with the label “Fortran77” on one “side”, gradually morphing to “Fortran2023” on the “other”.

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**Author:** ![certik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/certik/32/4_2.png) [@certik](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/certik)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 3:34am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/3 "2023-11-20T03:34:53Z")

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There are many great ideas, but let’s keep our current logo. It’s a great simple design and it was adopted by everybody. I can’t remember, but I think also the LFortran logo was modeled after the Fortran logo. If something works, let’s not touch it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Arjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Arjen](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Arjen)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/4 "2023-11-20T15:54:30Z")

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Maybe use the Moebius band (in modern form!) as a superhero headband and put the F logo on their belt?

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**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/5 "2023-11-20T18:28:19Z")

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> [@Arjen](#):
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> superhero headband and put the F logo on their belt

Are you thinking about Wonder Woman @arjen? 😄  
Well, in my language Formula is female and Translation is female… Even mathematics and “informatique”… So why not Fortran… (but all programming languages seem male, like the word language probably…)

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**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/6 "2023-11-20T19:23:36Z")

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> [@vmagnin](#):
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> (but all programming languages seem male, like the word language probably…)

Not Julia.

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**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/7 "2023-11-20T19:37:38Z")

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> [@ivanpribec](#):
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> Not Julia.

In French, even Julia and Ada would be considered male, as programming languages… And in German? Male, female, neutral?

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**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/8 "2023-11-20T20:20:13Z")

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Another unofficial logo posted 6 years ago:  
[https://www.reddit.com/r/fortran/comments/8aj93s/my\_fortran\_logo/](https://www.reddit.com/r/fortran/comments/8aj93s/my_fortran_logo/)

[![Imgur](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/2X/7/76b5e0b28be9a684a4cb44ec166be7dbcbf9291a.png "My fortran logo") ](https://imgur.com/10veLQY)

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**Author:** ![milancurcic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/milancurcic/32/2_2.png) [@milancurcic](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/milancurcic)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/9 "2023-11-22T00:14:39Z")

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“mula slator”… Thanks, no thanks.

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**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 10:00am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-logo-from-1987/6827/10 "2023-11-22T10:00:36Z")

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Sure, it would be better without the subtitles…