[advocacy-discuss] Logo/Mascot Continued...

Stephen Lau stevel at sun.com
Tue Jul 10 08:59:17 PDT 2007


Tim Foster wrote:
> Sara Dornsife wrote:
>> It's a personal preference thing. I would like to avoid the use of a 
>> critter. I seem to be alone in this desire.
> 
> Nope, me too - in fact I'm anti-mascot in general tbh.
> 
> I don't think the project needs a little cartoon character, we've
> already got an excellent graphical style, through the gorgeous
> vector art on the website - I'd rather see a continuation of our
> existing style if possible.
> 
> [ cf. netbeans or apache - they've got some pretty 
> nice grown-up art, no need for cartoon characters there ]

+1
I guess I don't feel the need for a cartoony mascot either.  I wouldn't 
mind a cool logo akin to the Debian logo, but I don't see what having a 
mascot buys us.

cheers,
steve

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