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Episode: From Pixels to Pure Derivations: Deterministic Logos with Nix (nixcon2025)
Description: When we think of reproducibility, we often focus on software builds, but what about the logos and visuals that represent our projects? In this talk, I’ll share how I approached logo design for the NixOS project with the same rigor we apply to software: deterministic outputs, minimal storage overhead, and fully free tooling.
I’ll discuss the journey of building my own FOSS tooling to generate NixOS logos as SVGs from source code. Existing tools like Inkscape or Blender were either not parametric enough or not designed for clean, annotated vector outputs. By combining principles of CAD, typography, and colo...