New logo design

Chris Morgan mihalis68 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 09:21:30 CST 2008


I like the logo too. Looking at the three droplets, you just want to
tilt or shake them until they merge into one big blob, which I think
is a great visual clue as to what the tool is about.

Chris

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> 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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