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

[Dale Ghent]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Rich Teer wrote:

> Instant recognisability.  Whenever I see a rotund penguin sitting  
> down,
> I immediately make a Linux connection (even if not in a computing  
> context).
>
> I think there're two things in consideration here: a logo of some sort
> and a mascot.  Apache's feather is their logo and Tux is Linux's  
> mascot.
> Are mascots and logos necessarily different things?

Not necessarily. A Logo is what we have now in the form of the (a  
little unimaginative) multicolored "OpenSolaris" graphic in a plain  
Sans font.

Logos and Mascots can be separate things either used together or each  
used separately (witness FreeBSD.org - they have a separate Logo and  
the BSD Devil Mascot) or combined. Sometimes the Mascot also serves  
as the Logo (for example, there's no real standard "Linux" logo, so  
Tux pretty much serves as both Logo and Mascot pretty much everywhere  
you look.)

/dale