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What do you use to create logos?

Madza on October 03, 2020

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...
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Justin Ho

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.

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Madza

Do you use Figma's desktop app or work in their online tool?

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Justin Ho

Pretty sure their desktop app is just a repackaged electron app but I use the web editor.

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Thomas Leathers

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...

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Madza

I love GIMP and Inkscape, both are powerful multi-platform tools, and most importantly free 😉👍

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🦄N B🛡

I use GIMP on a monthly basis for client documentation.

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Junxiao Shi

My recent logos are made with SVG. I write SVG code directly.

esp32cam logo

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.

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Gabby Mturi

I like it!!

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Vitor Paladini

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. 😄

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shadowtime2000

Same!

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Micah Lindley

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. ✨

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Amir Hameed

What are your views about Affinity Designer? did you like it?

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Micah Lindley

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.

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Amir Hameed

I have it, I am one of the earliest buyers. Just wanted to know others opinion.

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Levi Rizki Saputra

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

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Louis Low • Edited

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.

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Mario Lopez Martinez (he/him)

+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):

C4C Logo

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Ian Pride • Edited

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.

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Uvindu Harshana

I used Illustrator since I moved to linux I started using figma.

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Madza

Yeah, adobe's products are often the reason front-end devs stick to Win 😉

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DaX

A designer 😂

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Affinity products kick ass easily as good as photoshop and illustrator.

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Igor Brussolo 🕷️🏳️‍🌈

I use Figma app to create simple SVG illustrations
And recently I discovered Lunacy that helps me open Sketch files without using a MAC (I'm a Windows user after WSL 🤩)
All free to use 🤗

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Zen

Imagination 🙂

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David Yao

When it comes to logo design, if it is only for personal sife project, I always use figma according to its handy features, otherwise GIMP for commercial purpose.

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johnatanbs • Edited

I usually use Behanse, but also have several alternatives. Like in this review alternativemaster.com/alternatives...

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Em Ji Madhu

I will be the one fast logo designer in the world. Since I am not a professional designer and if I needed a logo I use some custom icons! And if I need to tweak, I use ph.

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DASH MORTEZW

i use photoshop and blender for making logo

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San Lamamba

I tend to get inspiration from Pinterest, just look up for like a general idea to follow and then get a color palette from colorhunt, then I start working on the logo in illustrator

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intermundos

Figma for the win.

Solid piece of software.

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Brayden W ⚡️

Figma :D

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Loralighte

If I don't have desktop apps, then I use Canava or sometimes Photopea. If I have access to my desktop apps, GIMP and Inkscape. If I don't wanna design it, I find someone on Fiverr.

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Sai Sandeep Vaddi

Figma is easy. I'm not a designer but Figma's simplicity in layer masking, its pen tool and plugins etc are breeze to use.

For simple logos with images and text Figma will be a great tool.

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Israel Manzo

Can you believe that I use paint brush to create my first three applications icons? They turn ok but I kept them till now.

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Eli (They/Them)

My partner is a graphic designer, so I got lucky there. But, they use Photoshop, Illustrator, and Clip Studio Paint. It all depends on the project.

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Amir Hameed

I use Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer. Previously I used to design logos in Adobe Photoshop.

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scroung720 • Edited

Inkscape superpowerful and underappreciated. Everytime I create a new design people ask me which platform like canvas I am using and I reply that it is just Inkscape + my hands.

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whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Sketch and/or Affinity Designer on the Mac.

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Andrew Baisden

I used to use Photoshop but now I prefer to create vector logos as they don't degrade. Figma is my choice however I would like to get better with Illustrator.

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Gabby Mturi

I normally use Inkscape and Sketchbook

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samuel chidi™

i use Figma for all design, its actually the best for me