O/H Nicu Buculei έγραψε: > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> Some more thoughts: >> - birds are associated with "brainless" in some cultures. Parrots are >> worse as they add "ornemental" (and mean) to the mix > > Around here is an insult to call someone "parrot". But in my > understanding, *any* symbol you use, in some part of the world it will > have a negative connotation. +1. In greek calling one a parrot means he repeats things he hears without knowing what they mean (like students copying book paragraphs in exams). I'm afraid we'll probably have to make a compromise at some point. :) >> - most of the proposals are overly complex or reliant on colours. The >> mascot must scale gracefully to low-resolution media or those where each >> used colour costs (CDs, T-shirts). That's why successful mascots like Tux >> or the Java guy are designed to degrade gracefully in monochrome low-res >> outline mode > > I kinda disagree, the proposals we got so far are mostly black and white > sketches, without having yet colors added, so we may evolve them in such > a direction. > > One thing I like about Rodrigo's Arrara: for small size display (like a > favicon or web button) we can use only the head, without the rest of the > body. I agree with this as well. -d PS: What's "arrara"? I tried finding it in wikipedia with no luck. "Ararauna" is the closest thing I found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-and-yellow_Macaw -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos@xxxxxxxxxx, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) -- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
