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Light do-not page showing six prohibited partner-lockup treatments (extension lockups, sub-branding, stacking, overlay, mascots, event logo) each marked with a red prohibition icon.
Summary
A co-branding misuse page collecting six prohibited partner-lockup treatments in a two-column grid, each marked with a red no-entry icon.
Visual description
Light grey background. Left column: "Unsuccessful examples" heading, grey intro, a note not to use mascots, illustration, or Mona in co-branding, and a small blue accessibility-contrast UI thumbnail (3.09:1). The right area is a six-cell grid, each with an orange-red prohibition badge and a monospace "Don't" label: EXTENSION LOCKUPS (Microsoft plus GitHub Copilot), OVERLAY (lockup on busy gradient art), SUB-BRANDING (Microsoft GitHub stacked words), MASCOTS (Octocat character holding a logo, plus Microsoft and Mona), STACKING (GitHub over Microsoft rearranged), and UNIVERSE LOGO (Microsoft plus the Octocat-25 event mark).
Key takeaway
A dedicated do-not grid specifically for co-branding failure modes, including the easily-missed ones (using mascots or event logos with partners). Same red-badge cell pattern as the logo misuse page for consistency.
Reuse notes
Essential companion to any co-branding template page. Calling out mascot and event-logo misuse is a partnership-specific concern worth documenting explicitly.
From this deck: Co-branding unsuccessful examples
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