Logo design is important as it establishes your brand’s visual identity and stands as a memorable symbol of who you are.
Do you usually use online services like Hatchful, Canva, and LogoMakr to get inspiration from available templates, fonts, color palettes?
Or do you always prefer to use apps like GIMP, Inkscape, Photoshop and Illustrator to start from scratch and be in full control?
What is your approach to creating logos and what apps/services do you normally use?
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I use Figma to design all my graphics.
I take inspo from awwwards, Behance, dribble.
Since the only time I design is for hobby projects I tend to try more artistic directions like searching "top design trends for 20xx" and incorporating something different everytime.
Do you use Figma's desktop app or work in their online tool?
Pretty sure their desktop app is just a repackaged electron app but I use the web editor.
Myself, I tend to design logos primarily in inkscape, though some situations lead me to use GIMP, though that's more for variants, such as ones with effects, or pixel-art versions, should they be needed...
As for the actual design approach, i tend to stick with a plain, clean, 'base' look at first, get that looking right, and then contemplate finer details like color, texture, and other such things... because none of those will look right, if the base vector doesn't look right by itself...
I love GIMP and Inkscape, both are powerful multi-platform tools, and most importantly free 😉👍
I use GIMP on a monthly basis for client documentation.
My recent logos are made with SVG. I write SVG code directly.
This is the logo of esp32cam, an Arduino library to use a camera on the ESP32 microcontroller. It depicts a camera, and the dots on the edges represent pin headers of the microcontroller.
I like it!!
The power of friendship.
No, seriously, I'm lucky to have a few very helpful designer friends and they always help me with that kind of stuff. 😄
Same!
I use Affinity Designer, which is a $50 alternative to the very expensive Illustrator that has all of the major features that a designer needs, plus wide file format compatibility for both imports and exports. ✨
What are your views about Affinity Designer? did you like it?
I love it! It's a quite versatile software and I'd highly recommend purchasing it. It's capable of producing very high-quality UIs and logos.
I have it, I am one of the earliest buyers. Just wanted to know others opinion.
I use Inkscape for designing logo. I have previously used Gravit designer and Figma. But these two tools use a lot of memory. Gravit Designer can use 500mb RAM when opening blank document (What!). Inkscape use a few memory usage around 100mb. When designing UI, i use Lunacy from Icons8
I use Adobe PS and or AI depends on my mood. Both can do logo designs. I also can export the logo in CSS with a help of a plugin. If need to modifying the existing low-quality logo, I use Adobe AI to create new tracing and recreate a new vector. If the logo was drawn on paper, I use my Wacom graphic tablet tracing with Adobe AI.
+1 Sketch. Used it to make a quick logo for my student org back in college, wasn't hard at all to pick up. Logo in question (Computing for Compassion):
Just depends on what I need done and which OS I happen to be on at the time, but I have to admit that even though I love GIMP (especially it's different "Polar Coordinates" filter, much better than PS) I love Photoshop even more. I can use Illustrator and I will sometimes for svgs, but I tend to always feel more comfortable in PS. I do like Corel Draw, but, of course, I always end up just using PS in the end.
I have almost as much experience with graphic design as I do programming and have been creating graphics of various sorts (mostly forums sigs, wallpapers, and logos) for over 20 years now.
I have been interested in looking more InkScape, but I do less with graphics these days so I haven't really messed with it yet.
So, to summarize: mostly Photoshop.
I used Illustrator since I moved to linux I started using figma.
Yeah, adobe's products are often the reason front-end devs stick to Win 😉
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