Classical Statue Logo

The Classical Statue Logo became the official logo of the Libertarian Party during the 1980 presidential election season and remains in widespread use. There are five main known variants, each appearing throughout party history, and most of them continue to be seen in current use.

Color

The color of the statue is normally dark blue against a white background.

Angle

The positioning of the Classical Statue Logo has varied, but is most commonly seen in one of three positions. One is at the most vertical, one is three degrees counterclockwise from that position, and the other is seven degrees counterclockwise from that position.

Variants

Naming Convention

The naming convention used here is to use presidential candidates to provide approximate time periods and to provide easy to remember names. It is not to suggest that the presidential campaigns were in any way involved with making alterations to the party logo.

Original

The original artist's name may be lost to history. It was commissioned by David Nolan in probably 1979.

Clark Variation

This variant was in the wild in 1980 and is the one seen on the cover of Ed Clark's campain book, A New Beginning.

Here the swirl to the far right of Liberty's robe is closed and the white lines descending from her right shoulder are narrower.

Bergand Variation

This variant was in the wild by 1984 and is a progression of some of the drift from the Clark variant. It can be seen on the front cover of most editions of Libertarianism in One Lesson.

The white lines descending from her right shoulder are closed, no longer reach the top, plus there was a change to the far left tiara spike (viewer's right).

Marrou Variation

This severely muddled variation was in use in the early 1990s and appears on some campaign materials for Andre Marrou. Unlike other variations, this one is almost never seen today, and is possibly only seen on materials produced during this time period.

It deviates significantly from the other variants in multiple ways.

Browne Variation

This variant was released circa 1996 by the LNC, often in TIFF format.

It re-adds several features missing from the Marrou variant, but implements them differently, probably re-done from scratch. It is missing a lot of the fine line details and has a slightly different aspect ratio.

Like the Bergland and Clark variants the swirl is closed, like the Bergland variant the white lines from her right shoulder are closed, and like the Marrou variant the patch of light on her left cheek is missing.

It is almost always seen at the seven degree counterclockwise position.