These official images and logos 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.
When using the FreeDOS logo in print media, do not use grey shading. The FreeDOS fish is either blue-grey or white, never plain grey. If you cannot print in color, please use a black & white image.
Official FreeDOS fish, by Bas Snabilie
PNG, adapted by Mateusz Viste
SVG, adapted by Mateusz Viste
SVG, adapted by Mateusz Viste
PNG, adapted by Mateusz Viste
SVG glossy, adapted by Mateusz Viste
PNG glossy, adapted by Rikard Lang
Official FreeDOS fish, by Bas Snabilie
SVG, adapted by Mateusz Viste
PNG, adapted by Mateusz Viste
SVG, adapted by Mateusz Viste
PNG, adapted by Mateusz Viste
Official FreeDOS logo (2004-) by Bas Snabilie
Official FreeDOS logo (2001-2004) by Ben Rouner
Official FreeDOS logo (1995-2001) by M. Hannibal Toal
SVG, adapted by Jim Hall
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 "SEAL", with the obvious 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 him.
Later, someone asked if that was supposed to be a whale (no gills) or a fish (no blowhole). 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.