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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        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.

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          It’s funny. On the original I think it was facing left and a case was made for updating it to face the right for readers who read left to right. The thought being that it would be looking forward rather than backward.

          It’s interesting - lots of differing perspectives on how we view art and marketing.

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            You’re right, I had seen the original but didn’t remember that the newer version was flipped.

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        If you adjust it a bit you could probably get another bird in there too. The pointy white part as the beak and the black beak as the wing.

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        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.

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      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

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    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

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    1 year ago

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

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    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.

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    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.