Oh, sorry about that.

Well, long story short there were a few logos and then this one was liked: http://i.imgur.com/1DACbnc.png

And then there was a vote on it with different colour schemes and such and the one we have now won the vote. So there certainly wasn't any specific effort on the part of the designer to make it similar in anyway to the Monero logo. Perhaps the people who voted had some bias towards those similar colours though.