I refined FixedFun's mascot design for Kbin. Thoughts? Feedback? (More pics/alts in post!)
I really loved @FixedFun 's idea for the kbin mascot, so I decided to refine it a bit and make some color alternatives. All credit to them for this wonderful idea! I merely refined it. Note, the circles beside the logo are just a color pallete swatch, not actually meant to be apart of the logo.
If the logo was flipped so that the bird was facing to the left it might help. At least for those of us who read from left to right, the first thing we see when scanning the image is the back of the bird’s head instead of the beak.
It looks better (cuter!) but I'm not sure if the bald man went away. Maybe if you add a little line to make the upper and lower beak clearer? Maybe a little smile.
though it does stand out more, i felt like adding a stroke makes it look more unrelated and pasted on if that makes sense? like someone took a random bird icon and threw it on a gradient bg. so i wanted it to feel a little bit more integrated. i dont mind the stroke as much as i thought upon seeing your version, tho. i added a stroke to mine just to see and i dont think its too bad
I also tried out a rounded base to avoid the parallel lines between the bottom of the base and the mascot itself, which are a lot more obvious with the border in place.
Is this a mascot in the same way that the mastodon is mastodon's mascot and Snoo is Reddit's mascot? For some reason this mockup really looks like an app icon haha
Like the colour choice!
Can't help but see a sumo wrestler looking up to the left before I see the bird though, sorry! 😁
I think of all the versions in the thread this one probably least so.
Regarding the name: In a lot of languages, cockatoos are spelled with a K, e.g. German „Kakadu“, Dutch „Kaketoe“, so a name starting with K would make sense, and there’s quite some Germanic names start with K, e.g. Karl, Klara, Katharina, Konrad, and many more. I personally like Klara, sounds like something a cockatoo would say on repeat. Just an idea.