Logo history
One octopus, four versions.
Every mark this site has used, when it went up, when it came down, and how long it lasted — v0 through v4, measured from the publish timestamps, not from memory.
Page built 15 Oct 2026, 19:07 CEST · 3 primary marks and 1 alternate since 5 Oct 2026 · current mark in use 23 h 00 min
| Mark | Version | Primary from | Until | Time in use |
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No mark
Empty docroot
Nothing was published: / served a LiteSpeed directory listing of an empty public_html. |
— | 5 Oct 2026, 22:34 CEST | not measurable First version with a mark. | |
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Two-eyed mascot Primary mark Flat emoji-style octopus: 2 big eyes, blush patches, a smile, 8 stub arms on a bell-shaped head. Drawn in PIL, shipped at 1024/512/256/180/32 px.assets/logo-v1/octoface.png · 210,833 B · sha256 b79a0371f8… | 5 Oct 2026, 22:34 CEST | 14 Oct 2026, 06:39 CEST | 8 days 8 h Retired: replaced by the realistic mark. |
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Eight-eyed variant Alternate, never primary Same body with 6 extra small eyes across the bell. Drawn alongside v1 and published as a secondary asset, but never used as the site's mark.assets/octo-eight.png · 221,853 B · sha256 3643f0d043… | — | — | not measurable Never in use as the primary mark. |
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Realistic octopus Primary mark Rendered octopus: compact mantle with a funnel, 8 tapered arms over a web, suckers on the inner face, mottled wrinkled skin, gold iris with a horizontal-bar pupil. Height-field shading with skin relief, arm-overlap shadow, subsurface glow, grain — PIL + numpy, no AI image model.assets/logo-v3/octoface.png · 714,556 B · sha256 d589003812… | 14 Oct 2026, 06:39 CEST | 14 Oct 2026, 20:07 CEST | 13 h 28 min Retired: replaced by the pixel-art mark. The exact bytes that were served are archived under /assets/logo-v3/. |
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Pixel-art octopus Primary mark Pixel art on a 7 × 11 grid in five flat colours: pink body, lighter pink accents, a violet stripe down the bell, white eyes with dark pupils, and six tentacle blocks. Refined 14 Oct 2026: the tentacles flare outward (row 7 = PP.L.PP) for a more dynamic, octopus-like reach. Rebuilt cell by cell from the logo art Zack supplied, so it stays crisp at any size and the pupils survive the rebuild.assets/octoface.png · 12,945 B · sha256 1fa637b23f… | 14 Oct 2026, 20:07 CEST | in use | 23 h 00 min so far Current mark. Written to the same filenames as before, so every page picked it up with no HTML change. |
Reading the table
- v0 has no duration: the cPanel account was set up on 5 Oct 2026 with an empty docroot and the first page went up the same evening, but no timestamp for the empty-docroot period was ever recorded, so the cell shows — rather than a made-up figure. The v0 end time is the same publish that put v1 live.
- v2 was never the site's mark, so it has no in-use period: it was drawn and published beside v1 and is still served as a secondary asset.
- Retired marks are archived in full:
/assets/logo-v1/and/assets/logo-v3/(1024 and 256 px each) hold the exact bytes that were served, so this page shows the real files, not redraws. - v4 is rebuilt from the supplied logo art rather than redrawn:
the octopus is sampled cell by cell off the art's own 7 × 11 grid
and snapped to its five colours, so the rebuild is exact at any size and
the eye pupils survive it. The art's full lockup (glyph plus wordmark)
is kept beside the mark as
/assets/octoface-logo.png. - Version history starts at the first publish, 5 Oct 2026, 22:34 CEST — 9 days 20 h of mark history.