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SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: CultofSkaro wrote: It seems like this must be just you. I instantly saw Bessie.

While you are right, Czech, I can't trust my own judgment, the other three people in this discussion recognised it immediately. I'm sure the majority of viewers will too. Yes. The other three to whom you'd previously announced you were making a Bessy-based design. Hardly fair.

And, incidentally, we don't know precisely how immediately they recognised it. Imamadmad's design is instantly recognisable as a cat. There's zero doubt what it is. Various people may not have any idea why that's significant in connection with Doctor Who — but they will at least be able to recognise what it is, instantly.

If it takes even 3 seconds to identify one of these illustrations they fundamentally do not work as icons. And I just don't think Bessie works as fast as that, particularly if you're not looking for it.

Conversely, a UNIT badge will be seen as, at least, "some kind of logo about some kind of group called UNIT".