Posted on Tuesday, 5th August 2008 by Jeff
Why should you bother hiring a logo designer to create you a logo when you can do it yourself? Did you ever notice that most logos are just basic text with a graphic or something unique done to the text? So basically all you really have to do is find a unique font and graphic that go well together. For unique fonts I usually go to UrbanFonts.com since they allow me to type in my website address to see what my logo will look like. After you download the font you want unzip the folder and go to Start > Control Panel > Fonts on your PC. Move all the font files into your Fonts folder and they will automatically install to work on all your programs. To add a graphic to your logo, you can either use an icon or a special kind of font known as a dingbat. Dingbats install just like regular fonts and will generate images when you type in certain keys instead of letters. UrbanFonts.com also has a unique selection of useful FREE dingbats.
If you’re curious how I created the logo above let me show you EXACTLY how I made this. If I hired somebody to do this for me it probably would have cost about $50. Fortunately I have the basic skills required to do it myself. Basically what I did was opened a 350×100 box in Photoshop. I typed in the name of my website address and chose the font Geometr231 Hv Bt and set the font size to 44pt. I added my .com TLD to the end of the logo and made that a little smaller at 24 pt. To diversify the colors I made the word “Startups” in the logo black since I thought that would blend properly with the green. I searched through the dingbats at UrbanFonts.com and came across a dingbat called Alien Mushrooms. I then added the dingbat to the front of my logo by first choosing the font AlienMushrooms and pressing the M key on my keyboard. I adjusted the size to 48pt and made it the same color green as my log. After saving it as a .jpg file I had a fairly decent logo that some would consider “professional”. Did I mention that it took me less than 5 minutes to make?
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