#I don't feel too bad criticizing because I think famous blind bag character design firm Tokidoki can probably handle it

[tinsin]

Hot take: I'm no expert, but I think the new Catholic mascot character is C-tier character design.

"Luce," a mascot character from the Catholic Church, just dropped today. And absent of any criticism of the religion itself - although there are many fair ones to levy - the design is mid. Maybe even bad.

The simple colors of yellow, green, and blue are then muddled by the addition of red and brown. The rosary breaks up the design in an awkward way, but not as badly as the very out-of-place logo on the rainslicker. It feels like the sort of thing they slap on a squeeze ball to make it into promotional material. The varied line weights also feel like they came back and added things later, realized they wouldn't fit at all, and then proceeded to do it anyway.

I realize they want all this iconography on here but they've put way too much noise and made the whole thing into an overdesigned mess. And her friends get additional accessories, which. Doesn't help.

My opinion? Ditch the mud and the logo, and abstract the rosary, or at least blend it into the color scheme better. The rosary is probably the most iconic aspect of Catholicism to the layman. Well, probably a bunch of Virgin Mary stuff too, but details.

The crook(?) can stay because it doesn't interrupt the flow of the design. Hell, it arguably enhances it by having something distinct. Though I will say, as someone who was raised Catholic - it didn't stick, mind you, but details - I have no idea what that is.