Parrot Logo

Here is a parrot logo that I was inspired to create after seeing a rather nice picture of a parrot in New Scientist.

NOTE:: I've been working on some updates. In addition to the original logo on this page, you might also want to check out Joseph, the Amazing Technicoloured Parrot and Parrot of Borg.

The vector outline of the logo was created using Adobe Illustrator version 8. Here's the Illustrator .ai file:

parrot.ai

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This was then imported into Adobe Photoshop version 6 for colouring, applying effects and exporting to GIF and PNG formats in various sizes. Here's the Photoshop .psd file, you can view and edit it using the Gimp (http://gimp.org/):

parrot.psd

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The smallest images (110x54) are 3 colour (white, black, orange). For the larger images, the .png files are 24 bit RGB colour while the .gif files are 8-bit indexed images with an optimised palette. Note that the orange colour has the RGB hex triplet of #ff9900 and is one of the colours in the web safe palette as well as being Leon's favourite colour.

The logo is © Copyright 2002 Andy Wardley, All Rights Reserved.
Permission is hereby granted for the logo to be used freely for any non-commerical purpose related to the Parrot virtual machine project.

For further information about Parrot, see http://parrotcode.org/

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parrot_400x200.png 34234 bytes	parrot_400x200.gif 17005 bytes
parrot_800x400.png 71284 bytes
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This page was generated using the Template Toolkit. You can look at the source code if you're interested in such matters.