[advocacy-discuss] Logo Feedback

[Patrick Finch]

Simon Phipps wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2008, at 22:37, Darren Davis wrote:
>> Simon Phipps wrote:
>>> On Mar 26, 2008, at 22:15, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>> It doesn't seem like the bubbles will stand on their own for brand
>>>> recognition the way the penguin does for Linux or the demon does for
>>>> FreeBSD.
>>>>
>>> I don't think they are meant to - those are mascots, not logos   
>>> (FreeBSD has a logo too - I'm not aware that Linux does though).  
>>> The  wordmark isn't going away, and I hope we're also going to end  
>>> up with  a mascot to stand hand-in-hand with Tux and the demon. As  
>>> most of you  know I hope that will be a polar bear. With sunglasses.
>>>
>> Linux itself does not have a logo, just the mascot, but all the  
>> individual distributions do.  Which is essentially the same as in  
>> BSD.  Mascot for the base, logos for each BSD distribution.
> 
> Sounds like the ideal arrangement here. Maybe we should just forget  
> the logo and worry about a mascot?
> 
> S.

What about branding the binary distribution?  Shouldn't that have a 
logo?  Is your preference to use the wordmark and take longer for an 
accompanying logo?





Patrick