Ye Olde Logo Contest

How we picked the current logo.

1. Announcement

This is the old logo:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/mercurial-logo.png

I like it, but it's a bit small. And the "mercurial" font is crummy.

New logos should:

• be at least 2000 pixels wide for printing purposes
• look good at 100-200px width
• be adaptable to an icon
• include separate layers where appropriate (drop shadows, etc.)
• document fonts used (preferably freely available)
• look good on a t-shirt
• be available under the GPL, of course

Link submissions below this line with:

• a small-sized image
• a link to a larger image
• a link to a layered "source image" (eg Gimp XCF, SVG..)
• any other information like fonts used
• your name

I will choose a winner on Dec 25th 2007 (aka Newtonmas).

2. Submissions

The icon might look like this

Not much of originality, I guess...

when the h and g meld into the m of mercurial.

The logo only:

And with related text:

Some icons : (A bit shiny, but can be reworked)

3. Winner

I've basically decided on a new logo. The submissions for the contest were interesting, but I wasn't really happy with any of them. So I enlisted the help of a designer friend and spent the last couple days with her coming up with something I was happy with.

The submission I found most interesting (Peer's "drop") continued the liquid mercury theme of the original. Unfortunately, it looked rather more like an oil drop than mercury and also didn't scale well. I also really liked Jens' choice of font (Kaffesatz) and so that also appears in the final design.

And here it is:

http://www.selenic.com/hg-logo/

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