How to make a text logo

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(Image credit: Mabel Wynne)

There’s a lot of pressure on a text logo – its impact is reliant on only a few subtle elements of design. As the designer you’ve got an ambitious job; it’s essential to create a punchy logo that conveys the right message with only one or two strategically designed words and flourishes. Your audience judges your brand with only a brief glance, meaning that only the tiniest of adjustments form the overall message.

Photoshop is the industry go-to, and that's what we'll be demonstrating with today, so if you're not familiar, be sure to check out our guide on how to make a logo in Photoshop too (though we wouldn't really recommend PS for logo making!). For beginners searching for cheaper software options, you can take a look at the best free design tools currently on the market.

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Mabel Wynne

Mabel is a freelance writer, artist and filmmaker. When she's not writing about the arts industry, books or culture, she's working on writing and illustrating her stories or developing experimental filmmaking projects. Working in journalism, poetry, documentary-filmmaking, illustration and fiction, storytelling is at the heart of what she does. She started writing articles in online magazines when she was seventeen. After training at the BFI Academy and then studying at UAL, she is now continuing to write articles while she works on creating and launching her first books and films.

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