I’m not totally following the reasoning for the changes. I think the F was stretched a little bit? It doesn’t look closer to the original manual F to me. I still like the current one better…
left to right: original manual, current, proposed.
The main issue is the proposed new logo is no longer a square. When I open the proposed new svg in Inkscape the purple box is 211.85 x 223.210. I think it would be better to keep it a square.
Also, when I remove the color, I’m seeing some rogue lines in the new svg:
Not sure why those are there.
The original svg is very clean and only 5 kb. Sure, we could extract the curve from the svg and write it from Fortran, but I don’t really find that very compelling. The proposed new one is 47 kb and seemingly very complicated.