A TikTok avatar is a circle roughly 40 pixels wide in feed. Everything here was drawn at that size first and enlarged afterwards, which is why there is one idea and two colours in each of them.
Left square is TikTok's dark theme, right is light. Judge the 40px column — that is where the decision actually gets made, and it is where most quiz-account logos fall apart.
Locked as the channel avatar on 2026-08-28. Pause bars inside a countdown ring that has already run down part way — the mechanic drawn as one shape: the clock is going, you stop it, you answer. Two colours, nothing thinner than a ninth of the diameter, and it still resolves in a 40px feed avatar. Upload d1-hold.png; TikTok crops the circle itself.
Same mark, gold bars instead of cream. Warmer and more on-brand with the gold cursor in the videos, but gold on orange loses contrast at the smallest size.
Cream ring, orange bars. Calmer and slightly more premium; the orange stops being the outline and becomes the thing you press.
The sticker skin on a paper ground with acid lime. Do not use it as the avatar — it vanishes against TikTok's light theme. Keep it for end cards and the sticker-skin videos.
A quiz Q with the gold rail cursor as its tail. Reads cleanly, but at avatar size it starts to look like a search icon, and it says quiz rather than saying the format.
A question mark with the cursor as its dot. Perfectly legible and completely generic — every quiz account on the platform is already some version of this.
Upload the 1024px PNG; TikTok crops the circle itself. The ring already sits inside a safe margin so nothing clips.
Use the transparent PNG over video. Keep it at or above 96px so the ring gap stays visible.
No text inside the circle, no gradient, no stroke around the mark, no third colour. It survives at 40px because it is two shapes.
The mark carries the identity through the rename — that is its job. Change the handle, keep the avatar and the pinned grid recognisable.