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It's just a vectorised image of Yukimura from Samurai Warriors[1]. This image to be specific[2]. Don't think there was a designer, just a developer making a logo using a character they like (or maybe it was random image search). Pretty common in open source.

[1] https://koei.fandom.com/wiki/Yukimura_Sanada

[2] https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dynastywarriors/images/9/9...

Isn't that just straight up copyright infringement? I understand that it's common in developer tooling to pick a character and use them as a logo, but it seems like a bold move to do that with some sort of external tooling at Mozilla's scale.

Yari in Hindi reads as friendship. I have been going by that so far, and refuse to accept any other meaning.

I have to agree. I think a Yari is the type of spear he has but it looks like a badly vectorized screenshot from Tekken.

Yari is a Japanese lance. http://www.ninpo.org/militaryhistory/weapons/yari.html

If your complaint is about it being weeb, you need to start with complaining about the name itself.

Agreed. Plus why name the thing / use the icon of a lance, anyway? So confusing.

Project names with a random word taken from another language always felt a bit cheesy to me.