Mercurial logging was not very pretty, so this is my custom mercurial style made to be similar to my git alias

colorcompact

changeset = '\t\033[0;31m{rev}\033[0m: \033[0;33m{bookmarks}{tags}\033[0m{desc|firstline|strip} - \033[0;36m{author|person} \033[0;32m({date|age}) \033[1;39m{tags}\033[0m\n'
changeset_quiet = '{rev}:{node|short}\n'
changeset_verbose = '{rev}{tags}{parents} {node|short} {date|isodate}  author}\n  {desc|strip}\n\n'
start_tags = '['
tag = '{tag},'
last_tag = '{tag}] '
start_parents = ':'
parent = '{rev},'
last_parent = '{rev}'
start_bookmarks = '('
bookmark = '{bookmark},'
last_bookmark = '{bookmark}) '

my git alias that this is based off of is as follows:

--pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

for more information on mercurial templates and styles: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/customizing-the-output-of-mercurial.html#id417618

Also, the color escapes are for UNIX based machines only. I would love it if someone would help with something for Windows.