I refined FixedFun's mascot design for Kbin. Thoughts? Feedback? (More pics/alts in post!)

minnieo@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 92 points –

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.

Here is some alternatives as well as a phone screen mockup
Here is Fun's next to mine

As the kbird, maybe his name could be Ben, or Bin, or Binny the bird? Binjamin is pretty hilarious

details: font is poppins. program is adobe illustrator.

UPDATE: Thoughts on this one?

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I just cant help but see the balding man...

i tried so hard not to while making this 😭

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.

does this look better and hopefully help make the bald man go away?

Good work mate, personally I'd like it more with black eye though.

thanks! how is this?

I like this, but I'd prefer a solid background (just personal taste but the color crossfade backgrounds always remind of WordArt).

Nice! Personally I think a stroked edge (with the border being the same color as the beak) and a black eye helps in making the logo pop when scaled down amidst a sea of phone app icons.

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

This stroke looks way better enlarged but the thinner parts aren't really visible when shrunk down to phone home screen size. It's hard to find something that works well everywhere :(

what do you think about this? i tried to get rid of the parallel lines

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.

I love this, I hope both Kbin and this mascot takes off! Binny's a wonderful name for a birbie too!

If Binny is short for Binjamin, I'm totally sold

I love cute birdies. And this logo looks so awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your work :)

Lovely!

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.

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.

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