10 Awesome Resources For Designing a Logo
Posted: Monday, November 29, 2010
by Tom Lemay
Concept Media Designs
When it comes to creating a logo design for your business, there are some pretty amazing free tools online that can help facilitate the process. Some of these sites may not be of any use to you depending on what stage of the logo design process you are in. Please take what is useful to you and leave a comment if you liked this article.
#1: colorpicker.com
#2: Dafont.com
Font selection is usually the second thing I look at when designing a logo. The right font really does matter and dafont.com offers thousands of them, all for FREE! You can literally browse for hours looking for fonts, you can search by category or alphabetically.
#4: Whatthefont
In some cases, you may already have an old logo in a jpeg and you don’t know the font, or you like the font used by another company. This tool allows you to upload an image of the font onto the site and it will determine the font for you.
#5 Brands of the world.
This site will not necessarily help you that much but I thought I would mention it as it is a pretty cool resource. You can literally download almost any trademarked or well known logo in a vector file from this website. Say if you want to include the golden arches of Mcdonald’s somewhere in your logo it might be useful as you would not have to design the “M" from scratch.
#6 Slogan generator
This free tool allows you to input keywords and it will create slogans for you. You may not get what you want on the first try but keep trying and it is bound to come up with a catchy slogan to include in your business logo design.
#7 How to create a favicon
Once your logo is finished, you want your logo design to be displayed in as many places as possible right? Many people forget that little spot on the top left of your browser called the favicon. That is a pretty cool place to put your logo. This site will show you how to create and upload a favicon to your website.
#70 Excellent logo designs: http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/70-excellent-logo-design-tutorials-and-resources/
This resource combines various graphic designers and their methods of designing a logo. This is a great way to get a feel of different techniques used buy various artists.
#9 LogoPond.com
Everyone needs inspiration to be creative. This website is packed with tons of really cool logos. You can search by keyword or just view all.
#10 pwcwebmasters.com
Browse through hundreds of Pre-Made Logos all for only $89. If you have an idea of what kind of logo you want, just browse through their selection. They also offer Logo Repair for as little as $49.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)You have some really great resources here, thanks for sharing them!
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