This was asked before

http://www.typophile.com/node/36152

but it's probably worth asking again (especially as some answering the first time have changed since then).

My icon is from a photo of an artifact known as the "Mask of Agamemnon" . Agamemnon is also the working title of a multilingual font I have been working on for a very long time now.

Mine is my name written in the nastaliq style of Arabic script. The original graphic was sent to me by a fellow Typophile, in gratitude for some assistance I had provided, and was written by his calligrapher friend. It is one of the nicest things anyone has ever given me.

Mine is the logo of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense - Can't recall why I picked it, it's probably due for a change.

Here's a t-shirt with the logo (worn by Scud in Blade II) - http://www.fanzone50.com/Norman/Scud_82.jpg

Mine is a monogram/signet that I have been using as my logo for 16 years or so. It owes some small debt of inspiration to Albrecht Dürer. And if I remember correctly, I originally derived the letterforms from Carol Twombly’s Charlemagne.

I’ve been thinking it’s due for an upgrade.

I use mine as my logo too. It's an 'e' I designed for a sign years ago, and I like it because it was my first go at lettering. The inspiration came from an album cover with cool lettering: Spooky's Gargantuan.

I remember I wanted a symmetrical 'e' and it was a breakthrough when I realised I could centre the stem. I like the way it looks like some kind of alien scarab. Sometimes I change the colours.

I lazily reused the one I made for my online hockey-pool.
I had been planning on designing a fancy monogram, but decided to stop procrastinating and just sign up already.

I really like when people use a normal picture of themselves, it's really helpful when you meet people IRL. I'm not outgoing enough to do it myself.

On a related note, Ty at TypeTheory just asked about the Okay Type logo and posted the response we sent him: http://www.typetheory.com/?p=2988

>it's really helpful when you meet people IRL.

In times past folks were encouraged to wear badges showing their avatar at conferences and other such meet-ups. Just as knights of yore would display different colors and heraldic symbols.

Mine is a "mashup" between a ® and a Я, and it obviously reference the initial R of my proper name. It undertook several iterations, and this most probably isn't the last of them.

Mine's a photo of a little self-caricature made from Fimo :-)

I don't think I'd ever noticed the blink before!

Mine's still a curling stone.

Mine is from a photo somebody took when I was 17.
I believe the Eye is the heart of Design.

> In times past folks were encouraged to wear badges showing their avatar

This is a great idea!

hhp

@Bendy
When I see yours, I think of those little plastic doodads they used to stick in the big holes of records to play them on little spindles. I loved those things.

(Mine's a crappy scan of my tattoo, a complicated personal symbol, btw.)

Mine's a generic 2px x 2px houndstooth. I change the colors every now and then when I get bored.

I've sported typographic avatars in the past, but I must confess laziness is a big reason for using a mug shot.
Too much creative effort to come up with a kick-ass graphic like Berlow's brain.
Mine was taken by Marc Eckhardt at Typo Berlin last year. He was shooting all the speakers immediately after their presentations, so I didn't even have to book his services or go out of my way to get a nice pro portrait. I use it on Facebook too.

Mine's me, but to be honest my hair isn't [that] red anymore, so it won't help much IRL. It did at last year's TYPO Berlin though.

And I'm so happy to finally know what Craig's is! I always saw some sort of industrial switch.

Nothing exciting for me, it's my personal logo.

Mine is a trace of this rather silly photograph of me ten years ago.

I've been wondering about Craig's too, but I found out when we became Facebook friends recently.

I tried to make one once but I was denied when
I tried to upload it. I've been blank ever since!

1985, try uploading a png format file (or contact an admin).

That's the ampersand from Williams Caslon. I made the curves on mine reminiscent of the old style English perambulator, or "pram".

I remember now . . . I changed mine to a mugshot because Nick changed his to a mugshot.

Mine is the 'y' from one of my very fat faces.

I got tired answering short messages with 'jacques', so I started to use 'yak'. Which is how you badly pronounce my name in Dutch.

Mine is an old tradition and current technology. knowledge as a fruit.

Mine shows me in one corner and the Arabic letter DAD (a heavy D sound as distinct from the usual D) written in an early version of my font AlQuds. Arabs claim that their language is the only one that has this heavy letter and call it the "Language of the Dad". No Dad and Mom jokes please!

I went back to a photo portrait (current at the time I started using it, uploaded minutes after taking it). Communication online is so opaque and impersonal. I think it helps to see the face behind the words.

Self-perpetuating narcissism - you guys rock!!!

mine represents what I work on mostly, fonts made of pixels and colour.

I tend to just use a personal drawing rather than a mugshot for avatars. Mostly I opt for 'older' illustrations to avoid having to change it too often once the design sinks in & I start noticing the flaws ;-)

Duh. An initial.

A derivation from the old Typography 100 lesson where you can read the top half of most lower cased letters easily, but with great difficulty for the lower half.

Mine is the mark I use for my freelance ventures. I made it by cropping the ampersand from Didot so that one might find the 'P' & 'I' hidden within.

Mine is a glyph image of my face in my face :-)

I used selected glyphs in one of my earlier typefaces, Leporello, to draw my image. Since I occasionally let a pun or two slip, I could not resist my face in my face.

ChrisL

Mine's my horribly narcissistic logo. It started as one of the first things I did in Illustrator, and then this year I refined it and started using it on my business cards and invoices, at the suggestion of my friends.

EDIT: Here's the photo it's based on, from spring break a few years ago:

mine is the f and k from my font 'fontstitution' which was done in Fontstruct and was an attempt to capture the essence of the calligraphy which appears on the U.S Constitution, in a modular, script font. a foolish endeavor perhaps, but kind of fun :)

Mine is a photo of a drawing of an "R" from my handwriting with some Photoshop filters applied and "enhanced" colours. I made it green because there are already a lot of red avatars

These are my basic initials as found on an inscription in the Roman Forum. The 'V' is actually a 'U', as in AUGUSTUS, but it's close enough for me.

Mine's the abbreviated form of my freelance logo for microspective.net.

Nothing fancy, just me working

This old post explains the origin of mine...

http://typophile.com/node/27382

My avatar is the logo I use on my newsletter &cetera and symbolizes my belief that heart-smart and head-smart both count, but heart-smart counts more.

cool stuff. Dr. Doc and Satyagraha, the photos kick arse —a photo is worth a thousand blah blah blah, and sometimes a 'flat' 2d depiction is worth more. And sometimes, a lot less...

(As for my own avatar, it's just a thoughtless three seconds of uploading from a set of a b/w pics of myself snapped by my wife. She was telling a dirty joke to get the smile...which of course worked)

"Yo Chris I heard you like faces so we put a face in your face so you can make puns while you post!"

Mine's just my initials in Avant Garde on a yellow background. I think my original plan was to rotate the typeface on a regular basis, but laziness set in.

- Lex

An early draft for a personal logo

Penumbra Sans Std | Bold by Lance Hidy

My web-avatar mark is bold in form to stand apart, while using an
open-ended colour system, which borrows existing forum colors to blend in. (i.e. 'twitter-blue', 'typophile-red'...) A crop from my logotype, this secondary mark is intentionally unclear and seems to reference ‘ro ren’ — a curious, abstract alliteration mnemonic.

I like the idea of a fragments not telling the whole story...

or

My ego is too big to fit my entire name in that little square...

An elvish-style coat of arms (I am a Tolkien fan and translator into Brasilian Portuguese), representing the hidden, then lost, city of Gondolin.

Ronald Kyrmse
http://tiny.cc/rek

Puns? Never

Mine is the sequence U+0078 Latin Small Letter X U+0331 Combining Macron Below in Victor Gaultney’s Gentium Italic. It’s a key letter in the popular orthography of the Tlingit language, representing the uvular fricative, IPA /χ/. When combined with U+02BC Modifer Letter Apostrophe it symbolises the ejective uvular fricative, IPA /χʼ/. This latter sound occurs in no other known language except Tlingit, and it happens to be the first sound in the words for x̱ʼé “mouth”, yóo x̱ʼatángi “language”, x̱ʼatoowú “meaning”, x̱ʼala.átk “discourse”, and other similar ideas.

The proper typographic support for U+0331 Combining Macron Below is a personal campaign of mine, coming from its extensive use in Tlingit as well as in several other orthographies for indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Not having the diacritic in a typeface is one thing, but there’s a surprising number of fonts out there which have the diacritic but don’t actually support its use on anything, or only support it on the precomposed characters specified in Unicode and not on anything else. Notice how the diacritic is visually aligned with the center of the italic X, how it’s approximately the same width as the left-to-right stroke, and how it’s positioned just a bit more than one stroke width from the bottom of the X.

Another reason for this avatar is because I really love Victor Gaultney’s Gentium and I’m patiently waiting for a new release of the full font...

Just changed mine. Now it's an isometric/calligraphic rotational ЯS ambigram based on my initials.

You had that old one for a long time...

hhp