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The GitLab logo/mascot is actually a tanuki, a Japanese racoon dog. It symbolizes our values as a smart animal that works in a group to achieve a common goal.
by john_cogs 4y ago
The GitLab logo/mascot is actually a tanuki, a Japanese racoon dog. It symbolizes our values as a smart animal that works in a group to achieve a common goal.
- cityzen 4y agoBe honest, you picked it because Tanuki Mario is the best Mario.
- boleary-gl 4y ago...I mean. It doesn't hurt ;)
- lucideer 4y agoIf the intent of the redesign was to make this more apparent, it also failed in that goal. Old and new both look like a fox. Old(er) tanuki-like logo for comparison https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f/originals/gitlab.png https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...
- john_cogs 4y agoThe intent of the redesign is for the logo to reflect GitLab's place at the center of the DevOps infinity loop.
- trash_human 4y agoWhy not just do some play on an infinite loop then?
- john_cogs 4y agoIf you check out the post, you can see/read how it is a play on an infinity loop.
- mountainriver 4y agoGitlab is at the center of the devops infinity loop huh? News to me
- andyonthewings 4y agoWait, but the other image file is named fox.png? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f/originals/fox.png https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...
- fallat 4y agoThat's pretty damn funny.
- xdennis 4y agoNot quite. The new one also looks like an evil owl. The old one didn't have a beak.
- RL_Quine 4y agoYour logo is a fox to everyone though, doesn't really matter what the intent was.
- bitwize 4y agoNo worries, the tanuki and kitsune (fox) are often associated together, as friends or rivals, and have similar folkloric powers and trickster natures. In fact in recent Mario games, when he acquires a tanuki leaf, Luigi transforms into a kitsune.
- fomine3 4y agoAgree as a Japanese.
- blumomo 4y agoIt even is a fox to GitLab as some commenter pointed out, read the file name: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f/originals/fox.png https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...
- bastardoperator 4y agoNot going to lie, I just learned moments ago it wasn't a fox, and honestly looking at tanuki images on google, is still looks more like a fox then it does a tanuki. For me it's the colors throwing everything off.
- atonse 4y agoAh (totally serious comment, not intending to be insulting or flippant): I always thought it was just a cheeky copy of GitHub's Octocat, because that's how GitLab started too, an open source implementation of GitHub. Didn't know about this animal, pretty cool.
- bogomipz 4y agoI believe the Tanuki are much more known in the symbolic sense as mischevious and shapeshifting though no?[1] At least in Japan, where they are native to. There always seems to be one outside of an Izakaya with a flask of sake.[2] [1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-tanuki-japan-s-trickster-god https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-tanuki-japan-s-tri... [2] https://www.alamy.com/ceramic-statues-of-two-bake-danuki-tanuki-yokai-outside-the-japans-bar-kyoto-japan-image465236368.html https://www.alamy.com/ceramic-statues-of-two-bake-danuki-tan...
- robotresearcher 4y agoY'all are gonna get really bored of explaining that your dog-like silhouette in distinctively fox colors is a brown raccoon dog. You might as well have a bright yellow circle to represent the moon.