Brand & icon design

City Seekers primary app mark — a simplified bunny explorer head with a city skyline, low dotted trail, and blue compass marker

Brand & icon design

The current City Seekers mark is the primary app mark: a simplified bunny explorer head with a pith helmet, deep night backdrop, bigger city skyline, scattered gold window lights, low dotted trail, and a blue compass marker. Canonical source lives at web/static/img/app/icon-source.svg. A synced brand-mark-source.svg and launcher foreground brand-mark-foreground.svg sit alongside for native launcher pipelines. The full variant pack — favicons, PWA and Add-to-Home-Screen icons, iOS AppIcon, Android mipmaps, store listing icon exports, and Play feature graphic — regenerates via npm run art:primary.

The candidate gallery below keeps the rendered SVG exploration, previous Curiositter treasure option, the selected simplified bunny options, and archived shipped alternatives committed so the design trail stays recoverable while S3 upload is unavailable.

Candidates

Each card shows the icon at the actual sizes the OS uses: a 16-pixel browser tab favicon, a 32-pixel high-DPI tab favicon, a 64-pixel lookup, a 180-pixel iOS home screen icon, and a 256-pixel preview that approximates the 512-pixel PWA install icon.

Shipped

1 Bunny City Compass

Bunny explorer head with a pith helmet, bigger city skyline, gold room lights, low red dotted trail, and a bright blue compass badge. This is the active app icon: still dominated by the bunny, with more of the night-city hunt mood restored around it.

Bunny explorer head with city skyline, gold room lights, low red dotted trail, and blue compass badge
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2 Tracker

Magnifying glass with a paw print inside the lens. Most literal take on "scavenger hunt." Cyan-on-navy stays inside the existing palette.

Magnifying glass with a paw print inside the lens
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3 Treasure

Wooden chest with gold reinforcement bands and a glowing keyhole. Echoes the in-game treasure-chest Lottie animation; the cyan glow ties back to the existing accent color.

Wooden treasure chest with gold bands and a glowing keyhole
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4 Pin Pal

Anthropomorphic map pin with rosy cheeks and a grin. Most overtly playful of the four. Uses the same coral red as the legacy compass needle.

Smiling map pin with rosy cheeks
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5 Curiositter Fox

Friendly fox face. Riffs on the in-game Curiositter creature collection (bunny, fox, hedgehog, owl, …) and ties the brand to the central gameplay loop.

Friendly fox face with closed-curve happy eyes
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New direction — Curiositter hunting for treasure

A 2026 exploration of three explorer-Curiositters — a bunny, an owl, and a fox — on a moonlit treasure hunt. Each wears the same pith helmet and carries a different treasure beat (map, open chest, compass), all on the existing navy / cyan / coral / gold palette. Tight mascot crops, stored at web/static/img/app/candidates/ (SVG source plus a 512-pixel PNG render) for selection.

6 Bunny Mapreader

Explorer bunny in a pith helmet reading a glowing treasure map — red X, dotted clue trail, mountain sketch, a compass on its strap. The clue-solving beat, closest to the reference art.

Explorer bunny in a pith helmet reading a glowing treasure map marked with a red X
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7 Owl's Find

Explorer owl peeking over an open chest brimming with gold, the cyan keyhole aglow. Keeps continuity with the previous owl-lantern mark; the big eyes and chest fill the tile, so it holds up as a favicon.

Explorer owl in a pith helmet peeking over an open treasure chest overflowing with gold
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8 Fox Navigator

Explorer fox gripping a glowing brass compass, a gold coin at its feet and the red X marking the spot just beyond. Riffs on the existing Curiositter fox while leading with the navigation beat.

Explorer fox in a pith helmet holding a glowing compass beside a red X and a gold coin
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Why We Picked the Bunny City Compass

Three reasons. It keeps the bunny identity visible while restoring just enough night-city context around the edges. It keeps the explorer read through the pith helmet, skyline, and compass marker. And it works better at launcher sizes because the icon is still dominated by one readable character shape.

Selected Meta Social Pair

The May Meta refresh pairs the previous profile mark with banner option 4, Bridge Route Team. The upload-ready files live in the combined social update folder.

Color palette

The same five values run through the icon, the dark UI chrome, and the in-game compass needle and reveal sheet. The generated icon uses these as the core brand anchors even though the raster art includes shaded variants.

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NavyBackground, theme-color
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Cyan accentCompass badge, clue glow
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CoralDotted trail, compass needle
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GoldCity windows, map and treasure glow
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PearlCompass south, neutrals

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