The Zelda movie has its cast
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Just dye his hair blonde like Link, put him in a costume, and it's decent.
All of the early Links were brown haired, it was only after OoT became so massive that blonde became the default.
The Legend of Zelda Famicon NES box art
Zelda A Link to the Past box art
Both debatable / not consistent across official art. First brown-ish, SNES dark blond.
[Zelda A Link to the Past box art for the GBA version blond] (https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/a/aa/ALttPFS_JP_Box.jpg)
The GBA version came after Ocarina of time, so I would agree they lightened Link's hair.
Edit : There is official The Legend of Zelda art where Link has solid brown hair, or blond hair.
Brown :https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/f/fa/TLoZ_Link_Carrying_Treasures_Artwork.png
Blond : https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/8/86/TLoZ_Link_Kneeling_Artwork.png
So not ''all'' but certainly ''many'' depictions of early Link with brown hair.
In Zelda II, Link's hair is more consistently brown or light brown. In the 1980's Zelda cartoon, Link has dark brown hair... but on the DVD release cover ( published in 2005 ) they put Link with dark blond hair : https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/2/28/LoZ_DVD_cover.jpg
And let's ignore the pink hair in the actual SNES game, which I always assumed was part of his hat when I was a kid...
I remember someone saying that was a deliberate choice for visual clarity and it was meant to be light brown per the manual.
Either way, he has been brown enough in his early days that you don't really need to wig him up to portray him, as long as its not heavy dark brown. But its good to get the confirmation from all the sources, appreciate that.
I think a lot of it has to do with Japan themselves, both their variation on limited hair colors (despite them basically all having black hair, they use dozens of colors to depict it in their media) and their historical stigma on blonde hair. By the time of OoT maybe they were less afraid to run with it.
I haven't heard of this. I know back in the 80s blonde hair on real people was seen as a punk/gyaru style, unless you're talking about something else.