Forum:Vote for new wordmark

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At this point in the discussion, I think we're going to need to take a step back and make some conceptual decisions. In particular, we need to decide whether we want to use the official Pokemon logo or not. It seems that there is a split in the community on this fundamental matter. Some of you are saying we absolutely should, others are specifically rejecting that notion. So let's try to get some consensus around this question:

Do we use the official Pokemon logo in our wordmark or not?

Place your answers below, please. — CzechOut 17:48, October 6, 2014 (UTC)

Yes

Support: Yes--Monfernape_If any problem? 13:47, October 8, 2014 (UTC)

Support: Maybe yes! I think it's fine to use the official logo. Nectaria (talk) 14:32, October 8, 2014 (UTC)

Support: Fine With Me BelieveInMagic814 (talk) 16:08, October 8, 2014 (UTC)

Support: Yes. --Shockstorm (talk) 16:43, October 8, 2014 (UTC)

Support: This is what makes us original. Mascots are fine, but we already have Marriland, Bulb and Serebii (and others), all that use their own mascots. I think having a neutral logo shows some balance. Energy X 18:38, October 8, 2014 (UTC)

Support: It would be nice to use the official Pokémon logo --Lordranged7 (talk) 19:44, October 8, 2014 (UTC)

Support: Sounds good. ZeoSpark ^Wall ContribsFile:Raichsprite.gif  20:25,10/8/2014 

No

Oppose: No, because I think the title should be simple like a plain font with the mascot of this site next to it. Ellis99 ^{CODE XANA} 18:04, October 6, 2014 (UTC)

Oppose: I don't think we should. I like the Word Pokemon being in different fonts with the Newest Legendaries somewhere in it to change it up a bit. --GamerTimeUS (talk) 16:41, October 9, 2014 (UTC)

Oppose: There are a variety of reasons I do not support using the official logo.

• It fails to give the site a distinctive brand, like bulbapedia, serebii, etc. Someone pointed out that there are already sites with their own mascot, and the pokemon logo will lend us an air of neutrality. However, those are all successful, and does anyone really think bulbapedia is unbalanced because bulbasaur is their mascot? If we simply use the pokemon logo, we will look like just another pokemon wiki and will have no name or icon recognition.
• It will not match the style or color palette of the site.
• If the above is an indication of how the logo will be used, it is poor quality and I would be hesitant to use it.
• Elements of the official logo would be fine, but don't just use the pokemon font like that at the end.
• Whatever we do, we should not use pikachu in the logo like the above image. Pikachu is the official mascot of the actual company, and using it would show a lack of originality in the community, and lend us no significant presence.

~remaai 17:18, October 9, 2014 (UTC)

Oppose: Honestly, I don't like it. The best would be to use the official logo, yes, but with one variation, and as Remaai said, using the actual company's mascot is lack of originality. I'm not saying "Hey, let's make Mareep our mascot", but yes to use something different. Something that also fits the new background we're having. I also like the idea of having "Wiki" in the same colors and fonts, but maybe it can be a little more stylized. Adrián Perry GZ 02:27, October 11, 2014 (UTC)

Oppose: I'm going to diagree with using the official logo simply because of two main reason which I believe everyone above me has already made: the colour, the mascot. The colour of the wiki and the colour of the background and wordmark is something which really should be matching colours to make it more asthetically pleasing. And we either don't use the official logo to do that, or we change this wiki's colour scheme to bright yellow and blue (which would probably not look that great, unless you got just the right colour yellow). The ehole point of having the forum about the wiki's mascot was so that we could have some sort of originality in the wiki. By using the official logo we are removing that originality which most of us wanted and redering the other forum I mentioned pointless. RainbowShifter 06:41, October 11, 2014 (UTC)

Comments

I think having a few concepts might be nice to see what people like, some with the logo and some without the Pokémon logo. Ellis99 ^{CODE XANA} 18:40, October 8, 2014 (UTC)

We only have that. There are also some older ones, but they all seem odd. Energy X 18:42, October 8, 2014 (UTC)

I must agree with you on that because I've seen them, did CzechOut create this wordmark. Ellis99 ^{CODE XANA} 18:46, October 8, 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I created it. I have no problem providing alternatives, but neither do I want to provide what the community clearly isn't interested in. The point of this discussion is not, as the title misleadingly says, to "vote for the wordmark", but rather to decide whether the official logo should be used in that wordmark. Once that decision has been made, then I can provide alternatives that include the official logo — or don't, depending on the outcome of this discussion — and you can choose from those. — CzechOut 13:37, October 9, 2014 (UTC)