[SeasonOfDocs] Doctopus Logo discussion thread

[Jo Cook]

There's a precedent for that- I don't think GitHub's Octocat ever has the
full 8 legs!

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 7:53 AM Felicity Brand <felicitybrand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I like it too. But it's only got 3 legs - is that okay? It looks more like
> a squid to me :-)
> But that's fine, I'm fine with it +1
>  👍🐙
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 4:45 PM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I'm keen on that logo choice as well, it's  modern, simple, and will
>> look good in a variety of colours.
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:41 PM Jared Morgan <jaredleonmorgan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That's a good logo choice. Will make stickers easy to produce.
>>> On Wed., 14 Aug. 2019, 04:55 Erin McKean, <emckean at google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks!
>>>>
>>>> It seems as though Doctopus is the consensus choice (vs templatypus)
>>>> and so this is a thread to sort out the logo.
>>>>
>>>> I have pinged the internal designer at Google who might have spare time
>>>> for this, and I will also have an internal budget discussion today about
>>>> external design help.
>>>>
>>>> In the meantime, I present my favorite of the Noun Project octopus
>>>> icons: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=octopus&i=1441577 (for
>>>> US$3 you get nonexclusive rights to use the icon)
>>>>
>>>> Right now I think we can probably wait until I hear back from the
>>>> designers, yes? There's not a ton of urgency for the logo at this point,
>>>> just need to keep it moving. :)
>>>>
>>>> Our choices will probably range from realistic/cartoon;
>>>> single/multicolor; variation options (eg do we want to vary the doctopus by
>>>> color for different events, or have different items held in tentacles);
>>>> text options (text on the doctopus/no text/ text surrounding the doctopus).
>>>>
>>>> Anything I'm not thinking of? Please suggest!
>>>>
>>>> More soon!
>>>>
>>>> Erin
>>>>
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>>>> Strategy | emckean at google.com | she/her
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