These are the official FreeDOS logos:
Official FreeDOS fish, by Bas Snabilie
PNG version, by (Mateusz Viste) Fox
SVG version, by (Mateusz Viste) "Fox"
glossy version, by Rikard Lang
SVG glossy version, by (Mateusz Viste) "Fox"
Official FreeDOS fish logo (2004-) by Bas Snabilie
Official FreeDOS logo (2001-2004) by Ben Rouner
Official FreeDOS logo (1995-2001) by M. Hannibal Toal
About the FreeDOS fish logos: A lot of people ask about the FreeDOS fish, and why we chose a fish for the FreeDOS mascot. It just kind of "happened", rather than being planned in any way. I'd always wanted to have a lemur as our mascot, mainly because I think they're neat. No one liked that idea, so then I thought we could use a cute, pudgy seal. Everyone loves seals. But there was a DOS GUI project called S.E.A.L., with the obvious mascot, so no one wanted to step on them by "taking" their mascot.
RayeR created an image about FreeDOS and Linux. He said he needed a FreeDOS mascot, so he just put the FreeDOS logo on a blue ball-guy. So for a while, I thought we could make a mascot kind of like the smiling green guy from 'HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. But it didn't catch on.
Later, Mike Green submitted a FreeDOS logo in the shape of a fish. He stated the fish was a symbol of freedom. I posted it, but didn't realize it would get a big following. Soon, I got other FreeDOS logos that included a fish. One was from Bas Snabilie. His fish mascot was kind of cute, with a big bug-eye, and looking kind of chubby. And everyone loved the fish mascot. You can even buy a t-shirt with the FreeDOS fish mascot on it.
Later, someone asked if that was supposed to be a whale (no gills) or a fish (no blowhole). Ah well, I guess nothing's really perfect. But he's really a fish. Because of his bug-eye, I called him Blinky. But we never had a vote on the name of our fish mascot, it's just something I called him. And it stuck.
The official logos (above) were donated to the FreeDOS Project, and may be re-used under the Creative Commons, Attribution 2.5: you are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work; to make derivative works; to make commercial use of the work. You must attribute the work to the FreeDOS Project.
Add these other logos to your own FreeDOS site:
button logo, by Tarik Armay
CD cover logo, by Sven Weise
CD cover logo, by Sven Weise
DOS pixels logo, by Glyn Hughe
DOS prompt logo, by Alessio Palma
by Jari Tapio Tuominen
by Stephan Reiter
by Michael Guinn
by Alexander Krame
by Chris Hodapp
by Jon Gentle
fish logo, by Mike Green
fish banner logo, by Mike Green
by RayeR
