- Simple, distinctive shape; shape alone as a silhouette can be recognized (other examples of distinctive shapes which can be easily recognized by their silhouette alone include a certain famous mouse of a cartoon based entertainment company and a certain computer company's logo of a fruit with a bite in it)
- Easily reproducible for black and white only situations
- Works well for photocopying and reduced-color reproduction; if it were to be used in a stationary/letterhead, for organization "business" cards, etc.
- Logo art is a vector illustration, which allows for flawless enlargement scaling
- Can be easily scaled down yet still retain its distinctiveness without compromising core detail
- Favicon image example:
- Another scaling example:
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- Visual roots to the BSD daemon, but without looking as daemonesque
- Removal of the horns to reduce "negative cultural and religious ramifications" yet still retaining a look based on the BSD daemon
- Replaced horns with cat or dog-like ears; this produces a "cuter" character (and the human masses generally have a positive reaction to cuteness);
- For those of you who are attached to the idea that it has to be a daemon, let it shall be known that [Half-]daemons with ears instead of horns already exist
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- No words or characters of written language used in the logo itself; even though it is stated that "The organization name (NetBSD) must be included in the final logo", I personally believe a logo should be able to stand on its own without any text and be recognized. Text addition (commonly underneath or to the right of the core logo itself) is an easy task and, in my opinion, should not be necessary in a logo design.
- This lack of dependency on text in the logo creates an icon which is not tied down to representing any specific culture or language
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