[I made a post full of ligature attempts here, but I've decided it belongs in a topic of its' own so we don't clutter up Vilem's Mac Installer topic. Sorry about the mess, Vilem and others!  ;) ]

Moved to:
https://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?pid=3143

I agree - the last one has something. The problem with moving the 'C' in is that it starts looking like a 'G' when it touches the left stem of the 'm'. I did a bold experiment and moved it even further then lopped off the bottom part of the left 'm' stem. It's an interesting effect, and actually allows a 1:1 ratio which is nice for icons and rare for text. I'll upload it when I can.

I like the chunky fonts since it has to work at small sizes. Tried Bauhaus but didn't quite succeed. Any concrete examples of fonts you'd like to see? By slab serif, I'm reminded of Courier and other typewriter-like fonts. That's possible and it'd remind people of typing... but on the other hand it reminds me of old-fashioned typing which I'd like to avoid. Any less typewriter-like faces you'd recommend?

If the VAG is too much, maybe a Futura could be a workable middle ground? Or maybe Century Gothic Bold? That also has the symmetric 'k' arms you're looking for.

Hmm, so Colemak is Cmk from now on? I'm not sure I like your Cmk ligature, Drey. It looks childish and untidy. I think the best so far was korivak's planet solution, but I guess it's out of question now.
I would use Helvetica Neue. It's modern (neue=new), it's not monospaced and sans-serif (therefore eliminating that 'typewriter' look, which is the most unsuitable type of font for a Colemak logo!)
It's a shame Cmk is the official Colemak abbrev., because it's really hard to make it look good. Co is nice, because it bears so many typographical possiblities and is consistent with the logo for other layouts on a mac (Dvorak -> Dv).

Drey: All of them. And, yes I am trying to use Cm, but it just looks horrible and is – as I have said – inconsistent with the Dvorak symbol. Consistency is important, although I can't comment on how Windows does this. To me, and I think most others, by now Co means Colemak. I've gotten used to it. Can't we just stick with it, Shai?

I looked around for some more info.

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes):
- Co stands for an ethnic group, Cobalt, Company (!) ...
- co stands for the Corsican language Corsu, the Colombian net domain and more

- Cm stands for C minor, Curium ...
- cm stands for centimetre, and the Camerunian net domain

Looks fairly even, unless one counts that co stands for a language and cm doesn't; that might be thought to affect disambiguation slightly. More importantly to me are the prefixes 'co-' and 'col-' which really throw off Co(l).

'Cm' is in accordance with a syllabic split into 'Cole-mak', which for me makes it a superior abbreviation. I don't think 'Dvorak' gives itself to such a split since it's an actual personal name, and the resulting 'Dr' would certainly be confusing. One might argue that if 'Colem-' comes from 'Coleman' then the abbreviation should be 'Ca' but that obviously won't work at all!

I tried to find anything on the 'Dv' symbol and whether that in turn is consistent with anything else, but I drew a blank. That doesn't matter too much to me though.

I don't believe the 'Co' is all that established. I always thought it was unintuitive, but just didn't say anything before.

Vilem: If your designs look horrible it may just be because you haven't found the right way yet. There are several, I'm sure of it; it just takes a good design. I don't think your criticisms have been constructive but luckily we have others. And I'll ask a few real designers I know for tips, while I'm at it.

[I tried making some 16x16 'Cmk' icons for the site icon and elsewhere; see the logo topic]