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:

Link submissions below this line with:

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


Results

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/


Submissions


attachment:peso_200x62.png

Title

Mercurial Drop

Author

Peer Sommerlund

Source

attachment:peso_hg_drop.svg

Tool

Inkscape


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


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


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


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]