ip-as-logo
Turns "cute and memorable mascot" into a table of hard limits
Install
npx skills@latest add s1dashu/ip-as-logo-skillOverview
An IP mascot generation skill by solo developer Sida, open-sourced in August 2026 and at ★5.7K within two months. It doesn't draw anything — it disciplines the image model: the whole character is built from roughly 4–7 large geometric shapes, the image is capped at three semantic colours (two for the character, one solid background), only one species-defining feature is allowed, it must still read at 32×32, and it emerges from the lower-left or lower-right filling 85–95% of the square. The skill itself is a single 114-line instruction document — no scripts, no asset dependencies.
Key features
- Directions before pixels: it reads your product context, proposes three one-line "subject — product connection — silhouette" directions, and only after you agree generates six independent candidates, three from each lower corner
- Complexity is a hard budget: two broad colour regions, two eyes and at most one small mouth; sharp corners, thin lines, texture and decorative marks are forbidden, and any feature that carries no identity gets merged or deleted
- No use-case words in the generation prompt: the text sent to the model describes only a square character image and never says logo, brand mark or app icon, so the model doesn't start drawing framed badge layouts
- One-pass draw: all six results are delivered as returned — no compliance scoring, no automatic retries, no post-processing to fake conformance
- Verified here: the install command works and the installed files match the repository byte for byte; feeding its prompt skeleton to an image model produced exactly the three-colour, corner-emerging composition it claims
- The gate is the model, and updates have stalled: it requires a top-tier image model (GPT Image 2 preferred, or Seedream 5.0 Pro, Nano Banana Pro / 2) and explicitly refuses an SVG fallback. The last commit landed 2026-08-22 and a reported 404 on the site's CDN is still open
Use cases
- An indie product or side project that needs a mascot people can remember
- A batch of candidates in one consistent style but real variation, for a team to pick from
- Building a shared visual identity for social accounts without a designer on staff
Indie developers and small teams who already have access to a top-tier image model. If you'd rather not roll your own, the companion site ipaslogo.com lists 3,400+ finished logos marked free to download and free for commercial use.