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Kiki is still the cutest. She's more important than she seems - branding is everything, and Krita has one of the best mascots in FOSS, a field in which aesthet
by Fej 9y ago
Kiki is still the cutest.
She's more important than she seems - branding is everything, and Krita has one of the best mascots in FOSS, a field in which aesthetics has traditionally not been a priority.
How better to spread a program for artists than with a mascot that begs to be drawn?
- MayeulC 9y agoActually, for a digital painting program, I would expect it to be the case! Usually, in my experience, the mascots of FOSS software were quite criticized as having too many features to draw, etc... Not easily recognizable as logos. I have no idea whether this is valid criticism or not. But when you ask me about Krita, I think about Kiki. I can't tell what the icon looks like on the top of my head. On the plus side, some say that we are much better mentally equipped to recognize faces than abstract figures. So, maybe this was just something not fashionable in the past few years in the flat corporate/branding/design world?
- fl0wenol 9y agoHoly cow, I had no idea... she's great! That's some Miku-level stuff there (Checks Wikipedia) ahhh, it's from the same guy that did Freedom Planet, I totally see the influence. Maybe it's time to commission him for some other mascots for other projects that are sorely lacking. Inkscape, for example.