Druplicon (the logo)

After Drupal had been created, an obvious matter was the choice and creation of a logo. Of course it would have to do something with a drop... or water.

The inital idea was simple: a drop in a circle. . It was featured as an "O" in a liquidish "Drop".

When the community grew, the idea came up of a cartoony drop with a face. Steven Wittens (UnConeD) created a 3D drop, but the idea didn't get too far mainly because 3D is hard to print, hard to edit, etc.

When the logo-issue had come up again, Kristjan Jansen (Kika) came up with idea of putting two side-way drops together to form an infinity-sign. When put into a filled circle, it resembled a face. After some more work by Steven Wittens, the Druplicon was created: a stylised drop with the infinity eyes, a round nose and a mischievous smile.

That's the 'story' behind it... I like the idea that the infinity-eyes symbolise the infinite possibilities that Drupal offers :)

See more versions of the logo in the marketing section.