Ye olde logo contest

[Jens Alfke]

On 10 Feb '08, at 6:40 AM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:

> Finally: Personally I don't like a logo that associates to either
> FreeBSD or a devil.

I chose the symbol because it's a more interesting-looking variant of  
the common planetary symbol for Mercury. I hadn't anticipated there  
would be religious objections to it. (It's a good thing I scrapped my  
other design that showed a cartoon of Mohammed holding up two scrolls  
with diffs on them... :)

[FWIW, John Dee and his works had nothing to do with the Devil or  
paganism. Dee was a devout Christian who devoted much of his life to  
the task of communicating with angels. Alchemy, as practiced in  
Europe, was based on Christian philosophy and involved elaborate  
metaphors between chemical transformation and the soul's progress to  
salvation.]

> Yes. I like Peer's "Mercurial Drop" (version 1) best, with the icon
> shown next to "Mercurial Drop" version 2.

I like the idea of a drop, but the specific design looks too much like  
a grayscale version of the Symantec logo <www.symantec.com>. The  
typeface in version 1 is nice, but could use a heavier weight; version  
2's oblique sans-serif is too generic, though. I've got a fairly big  
font library, so I could offer a number of alternatives.

An image of two drops merging into one would make a nice visual  
metaphor...

What's the new deadline?

—Jens