This is a final poll, following up on Poll for New Cabal Logo. See Update Logo · GitHub for additional discussion. The choice is between two top contenders from the previous round and a conservative option of keeping the old logo unchanged.
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First I’m hearing of it, and none of my top tier would’ve made it to this round anyway, but both of these new designs are better.
I like the font of the first and the cube of the second (without the lambda) 
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If I may ask - what are the fonts and how have they been chosen?
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@Bodigrim: thank you so much.
@MangoIV: I don’t know about the old logo, but @JonathanLorimer and @fgaz, who have submitted the candidate logos that won the previous round, can probably shed some light there.
New logo consists 2 parts - an icon and a text.
Old font for text is good enough!
New icon is good as old icon!
I love option B, it’s very much aligned with the visual identity of Haskell in terms of colours and typeface
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The more open people are to experimentation, the less invested anyone has to be in any particular choice. Rather than rehash discussions that led to either of these options, I suggest choosing the one you like best and then being open to tweaking it going forward. 
(I also was tempted to prefer a mix of elements from the choices, but went with a holistic all-or-nothing vote anyway.)
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I was originally going to go with A, but although the curves are nice and having the lambda would correlate to other haskell branding, I think the sans serif, sharp box effect of B feels better to me. If this was ranked, I’d go B, A, Old.
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The one in my design is EB Garammond. I chose it cause I thought a classic, legible, serif font played nicely with the conceptual underpinnings of a project that is about structuring packages / compilation units, and taming dependency graphs (and Garammond is about as classic as it gets). Additionally, if I am being completely honest, I am pretty exhausted by the sterile sans-serif fonts that are used in every tech company’s logo. Although now that its been a couple years it does seem that serif fonts are kind of making a comeback.
Another reason I selected it is that google fonts are freely available and easy to acquire.
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@artem: For me it is the otherway round. 
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Both options look good visually, but to me (B) looks more fitting for Cabal. The lambda in (A) falsely hints at some sort of relation to lambda calculus, but the language of .cabal files is far removed from it.
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I just went with the purpliest one.
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The font used in proposal B is the same that is used in the Haskell logo (Source Sans iirc), and that is also the reason why I chose it.
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I chose option B for the same reason as others. By the way, what does the star shape in the logo represent?
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alright, then I’m even more on board with logo b - there should be a somewhat unifying design language across the ecosystem, if at all possible.
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The star shape in addition to the two sides of the cube forms the applicative *> symbol, I guess in a nod to the main Haskell logo looking like the monadic bind symbol. That’s how I read it at least. I don’t know if that is really the idea behind the design.
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Looks like option B is more consistent with the rest of the visual design language in the Haskell ecosystem.
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whats the typeface, do yo know?
Unfortunately, I don’t know which typeface is used in current Cabal logo. Very interesting Serif font.
And I’m afraid, it looks like nobody knows.