page_title: Tyson Tan
section_title: FLOSS Mascots
hierarchical_section_title: Tyson Tan / Works / FLOSS Mascots
caption_attribution_description: English: Libbie facing the viewer with her head tilted.
context_page_description: Tyson Tan is a Chinese concept artist and character designer. He is noted for re-designing KDE's mascot Konqi, as well as designing a few other mascots for free and open source software projects.
context_section_description: Tyson designed Kiki the Cyber Squirrel as the mascot for Digital painting software Krita in 2012, and has been Krita's startup artwork artist since. In 2013, his re-design concept of KDE's mascot Konqi was chosen from a contest and has been used since KDE version 5.x. He also designed Kate the woodpecker as the mascot for advanced text editor Kate in 2014. Tyson submitted a mascot (Libbie the Cyber Oryx) for LibreOffice during a contest run by The Document Foundation in late 2017 however his entry was unsuccessful.
caption: Libbie the Cyber Oryx, proposed LibreOffice mascot
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