Logo & Mark

Rule

There is no separate SOLMEME/SOLMAMY logo. The mascot is the brand mark for all content, on every site. (SOLMEME is a separate entity from Sol Mamy, not a form or variant of her — see Mascot Book, Brand/Mark Relationship.)

(Source: direct owner decision, “the raccoon mascot is used for all content, and there is no other logo.”)

Meaning

“The mark” itself — the exact silhouette and its invariants — is defined in full in Mascot Book — Brand/Mark Relationship. This chapter states the policy that the mascot is the mark; Mascot Book states what the mark actually looks like.

That policy is correct as a top-level rule, but it doesn’t by itself settle every specific application — which favicon variant to use, or how a given digital surface should present the mark, still needs its own reasoning tied to Sol Mamy’s actual history. That reasoning lives in the Brand Book’s Digital Surfaces chapter, applied there to favicons and OG images specifically.

Status Crest classification: the Status Crest (a small chevron symbol carried at eight fixed locations on the costume, always paired with the wordmark) is part of “the mark,” not a separate element. See Mascot Book — Brand/Mark Relationship for the full detail; the practical effect here is that “not a separately designed wordmark or symbol” (below) does not exclude the Crest — a reduced/simplified rendering of the mark that omits the Status Crest is incomplete, not a valid simplification.

How to use

Any context needing “the logo” uses the mascot’s canonical silhouette, not a separately designed wordmark or symbol. (Source: Mascot Book — Visual Identity.)

Minimum size

The mark must read correctly as a flat, single-color silhouette at sizes as small as 16px. (Source: Mascot Book — Visual Identity, Species & silhouette — this is the mascot’s own stated hardest invariant, not a Brand-Book-invented number.) The Digital Surfaces chapter cites this same fact as the reasoning behind the favicon’s cropped-face-icon form, since a favicon (16–32px) is the most extreme real-world test of it.

Clear space

No other element (text, logo, icon) should sit closer to the mark than the height of the mascot’s own head. (Restated in Mascot Book — Usage, Canonical — Clear space.)

Example

Sol Mamy’s front-facing silhouette, wordmark, and Status Crest — all three confirmed part of “the mark” (see above). This is Mascot Book’s own working illustrative example, not a formally approved canonical reference — no approved reference exists yet for any image. This specific image also carries a known, visible deviation: it shows a pink bow on the right ear rather than the three-line rank glyph the Flanking marks rule describes there — the written rule is the standard, not this image. Full construction rules: Mascot Book — Visual Identity.

Don’t

• Do not commission or design a separate logo, wordmark, or symbol as an alternative to the mascot.
• Do not alter the base design without approval, or present it in a distorted or unattractive rendering — the specific defects a rendered misuse example would need to demonstrate.
• Do not alter the mask, ears, tail, or silhouette proportions in any presentation of the mark — an identity invariant, not a style choice.

(Source: Mascot Book — Usage, Canonical — Additional prohibited usage / Prohibited usage.)

Not yet produced: a rendered misuse example (the mark shown with one of the above defects — e.g. a distorted/stretched rendering, or an altered proportion — marked with a violation indicator, per the pattern in Solana’s and EigenLayer’s own brand-guideline pages) does not exist yet. This is a real, disclosed asset gap — creating one is new visual-asset production, out of scope for a documentation-only pass.

Application

• Favicon (main site + /docs/ surface): a simplified, cropped mascot-face icon — full system and reasoning in the Digital Surfaces chapter. Two live favicon assets already exist and are classified there. Both existing favicon assets predate the Status Crest’s own design and have never been evaluated against the “Crest is part of the mark” rule — whether they need updating is a separate future production question, not decided here.
• Open Graph / social preview image: recommended structure exists in Digital Surfaces; finished artwork is a future production task, not yet produced.
• Other application contexts (merch, print, presentations, partner/press) have no produced example yet — see the Applications chapter for the honest per-channel status; this chapter does not restate that table.

Not yet determined

• The full future favicon design (actual artwork) and Open Graph image artwork — the system/logic is delivered in Digital Surfaces; the finished visual assets are a future production task, not a documentation-phase question.

SOLMEME (the solme.me persona) is not a site-variant of Sol Mamy’s mark, so no distinguishing-marker question exists between them — see Mascot Book — Brand/Mark Relationship.

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Part of the SOLMEME Brand Documentation System. Content status (Canonical/Proposed/Open/etc.) is this book’s own axis; ownership/rights are separate — see OWNERSHIP_AUTHORITY.md at the documentation system’s root.