We did some surveys (partly because we thought of the “ICLR” / “eye clear” abbreviation) and only relatively few people liked the “clear” pronunciation. So the pronunciation we’re going for is “C L R” (“see ell are”). Of course, if people just end up saying “clear” and like it, we won’t object and would be happy to adopt that.
Just as a data point, “eye clear” took off for the conference ICLR so people seem to find the “clear” pronunciation intuitive.
We did some surveys (partly because we thought of the “ICLR” / “eye clear” abbreviation) and only relatively few people liked the “clear” pronunciation. So the pronunciation we’re going for is “C L R” (“see ell are”). Of course, if people just end up saying “clear” and like it, we won’t object and would be happy to adopt that.