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= Ye Olde Logo Contest =

How we picked the current logo.

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== 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).


== Submissions ==

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{{attachment:peso_200x62.png}}
|| Title  || Mercurial Drop   ||
|| Author || Peer Sommerlund  ||
|| Source || [[attachment:peso_hg_drop.svg]] ||
|| Tool   || Inkscape         ||

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{{attachment:peso2_200x52.png}}
The icon might look like this {{attachment:peso2_32x32.png}}
|| Title  || Mercurial Drop   ||
|| Version|| 2 ||
|| Author || Peer Sommerlund  ||
|| Source || [[attachment:peso2_hg_drop.svg]] ||
|| Tool   || Inkscape         ||

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Not much of originality, I guess...

{{attachment:origvect_200x200.png}}
|| Title  || Original logo vectorized  ||
|| Author || M. Clabaut ||
|| Source || [[attachment:origvect.svg]] ||
|| Tool   || Inkscape         ||

|| Title  || Original logo vectorized using blur filter ||
|| Author || E. Aina ||
|| Source || [[attachment:origvectblur.svg]] ||
|| Tool   || Inkscape         ||

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

The logo only:

{{attachment:hgmcl.png}}

And with related text:

{{attachment:mercurialmcl.png}}

Some icons : {{attachment:hgicomcl24.png}} {{attachment:hgicomcl48.png}}
(A bit shiny, but can be reworked)

|| Title  || Initial try of h and g merge in m shape  ||
|| Author || M. Clabaut ||
|| Source || [[attachment:mercurialmcl.svg]] ||
|| Tool   || Inkscape         ||
|| Font   || http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Karat.htm ||

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{{attachment:peso3_hg-bar_200x50.png}}
|| Title  || Mercurial Bar ||
|| Author || Peer Sommerlund  ||
|| Source || [[attachment:peso3_hg-bar.svg]] ||
|| More images || [[http://www.assembla.com/spaces/image_annotation/image_gallery/c65E1kZRyr3iMBabIlDkbG|Assembla image gallery]] ||

== 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://selenic.com/hg-logo/logo-droplets-150.png}}

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

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