I made a small logo test

[Steve Elliott]

@Hardcoal I think you're being too clever with the complications mate. IMO it reads like SyntakBoom - not SyntaxBoom. And as for the curly brackets, well not everybody uses C based languages here, so best to remove them I think.

Apart from that I really like it! The first one with the darker background 

[Baggey]

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Is the symbol for code these days