For a recent post, I needed a CPAN logo, so I jumped to cpan.org to find one, but the quality was very disappointing :cry:

Ouch

And if you look at it in gimp:

In gimp

Then I put in my mind to try to do one by myself (I’m almost a total noob at inkscape).

This weekend, after hours (yes believe me) of trials (potrace, vectorizer.io, vectormagic.com, autotrace, imagemagick, inkscape…) I got something nice, here is my preview:

Svg screenshot This is a png because devto does not accept to embed SVG but do not use this one but CPAN logo SVG

What about licence of logo? I don’t know, I found no info on disclaimer page. If there is any problem, please shout and I remove it immediately (I will send a mail to cpan@perl.org to clarify)

EDIT: It is Artistic License or GPLv1+

The CPAN Logo provided by J.C. Thorpe.
You may distribute this document 
either under the Artistic License (comes with Perl) 
or the GNU Public License, whichever suits you.