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• It's imperative that you understand your customer's target market before you even begin to think about designing a logo. – If it's an older audience or children, for instance,
you may need larger fonts.
– If it's lawyers or financial institutions, you'll want a very conservative design.
– If it's ‘the youth’, you can get a bit more wild and crazy.
• If you are able to, pose some questions, but don't be surprised if they have a tough time answering them — many companies never give any consideration to just who their target market is: – What is the average age of your target market?
– What level of education do they have?
– What gender is the majority of your target market? – Is there a certain ethnic group you're targeting?
• Start by selecting a font or fonts, and write down the names of the ones that I think will be appropriate for the logo/style/impression
• Once you’ve decided on fonts (there are no set number, just whatever takes your fancy), start setting the company name. Start by set it in all caps, in lowercase and caps, as many variations as I can think of. Then begin assigning the fonts you have chosen to each and every variation.
Next print it out; don’t skip this step, it's very important. It's amazing how good something can look on your monitor, only to look very bad printed.
• You may have ideas for the logo just overflowing your brain. Or you may need some inspiration. Look through the following to get the creative juices flowing: – Logo books
• You must start with sketching a thumbnail, rather than moving right to the computer. Although your end customers may almost never see the thumbnails it is important to mind map/brainstorm the ideas over and over.
• Remember they are expected to be very rough, which is part of why the customer never sees them or sees a re-worked version.
• When you've refined your logo to everyone's satisfaction, it's time to get colourful.
• You may need to go back to the inspiration step and look around to find colour combinations you like.
• As with fonts, try out a number of colour combinations. Don't forget to print it out.
• Customers have a hard time visualising colour, so it's very important that you explain to them the difference between viewing colour on a monitor, printed on an inkjet and or commercially should it ever become appropriate.
• This one just didn't appeal to me, with the yellow and red squares. It didn't jump out and say "This is a fun place to visit, with lots of good stuff, so stay and browse a while."
• This one seemed to really fit the bill. It's fun, it's casual, and it's colourful. I also thought the triangle part could make wonderful little buttons for use as icons.
• I liked this but didn't like the colours as well, and while I liked the chef in the diamond, the border and the font, I didn't like the text in the diamond shape.