Years ago a co-worker drew six logo ideas for a site that nothing came of. They were all dropper bottles, some with a cloud, one with the bottle standing in for the space between JUICE and SAUCE. That one was always my favorite.
The domain sat there. Now it’s this: a notebook for hardware, security, the homelab and whatever I’m building with language models. The bottle came along.
Line drawing to silhouette
The original was a line drawing: pipette inside, cloud where the liquid was. It looked great at poster size and turned to mud at 18 pixels, which is the size it actually lives at in a browser tab. So it became a single solid shape: bulb, cap, neck, shouldered body. The cloud is gone; in its place is a block cursor knocked out of the bottom. What’s in the bottle now is a command line.
<svg viewBox="0 0 48 96" fill="currentColor">
<circle cx="24" cy="8" r="8" />
<rect x="13" y="15" width="22" height="14" rx="3" />
<path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M19 29 L29 29 L29 33 L39 43 L39 87
Q39 96 30 96 L18 96 Q9 96 9 87 L9 43 L19 33 Z
M17 74 L31 74 L31 88 L17 88 Z" />
</svg>Three primitives and an even-odd fill. It inherits currentColor, so the same markup works in any colour; here it’s the favicon.
Credit
The dropper-bottle concept is a former co-worker’s. This is a redraw of the idea for a different job, and it’s only here because the original was good enough to keep.