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+100

On 06/02/2017, 12:32, "Dmitry Tantsur" <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:

    On 02/06/2017 12:49 PM, Miles Gould wrote:
    > On 01/02/17 21:38, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote:
    >> But, let me ask something, what the foundation really wants to achieve
    >> with this ? Cause I think we are conflating two things here: A logo (or
    >> brand) and a mascot.
    >
    > I think this is an excellent point. The constraints on logos make a lot of sense
    > *for logos*, but it'll be very hard to achieve something like Pixie Boots within
    > them. Could we perhaps use *two* images for different contexts?
    >
    > 1) a stylized logo, matching the guidelines, for use in "official" settings and
    > anywhere that it will be seen alongside other projects' logos;
    > 2) our existing Pixie Boots mascot, for use in "unofficial" settings (laptop
    > stickers, T-shirts, chatbots, The Bear Metal Adventures of Pixie Boots webcomic
    > series*, etc, etc).
    >
    > It'll be much easier to agree on image 1 if we don't reject every proposal for
    > not capturing every nuance of image 2.
    >
    > If that makes sense, I have a suggestion for the next iteration of the logo, if
    > one is needed: take the head from logo version 3.0. AFAICT, that meets all the
    > objections raised so far:
    >
    >  - it's simple and logo-like,
    >  - it's not holding any man-made objects,
    >  - it's friendly,
    >  - it has heavy-metal facial markings,
    >  - it's not making any potentially-obscene gestures.
    >
    > It doesn't look exactly like Pixie Boots, but if we can carry on using Pixie in
    > unofficial contexts, that shouldn't be a problem.
    
    +100 to everything written here.
    
    >
    > Miles
    >
    > * In which Pixie Boots, sysadmin by day and rock musician by night, solves a
    > series of increasingly baffling deployment problems using AWESOME DRUM SOLOS.
    >
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