Difference between revisions of "Branding guidelines"

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Advice for anyone else looking to make a logo-
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*should look when it's both very big, or very very small
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*should look in full color, or simplified to be one color
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This was generated hastily in Photoshop, not vector software like Illustrator or Freehand which would keep all lines crisp and smoothThis is a quickie, what I call a 'proof.'
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Here's our logo - it's elsewhere on the site, but I'm putting here because this was the project page and it's easier for me to remember - Thanks nykodemus and preaux for helping the project get to this point.  I've just realized there's some clipping issue in this .svg, creases are appearing between shapesIt's visible on the file on my computer, it may be a firefox issue, I'm going to look into it.
  
We talked a little at the last open house about changing the Makers Local logo just a little bit.  I wanted something that would get rid of the difficult gradient and similar gray tones, but that would still show that we were about tech and engineering and keep the emphasis in the middle.
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[[image:Ml_logo_vector.svg]]
 
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So I made the gear a little more complicated, added some bolts and an inset to it, and got rid of the gradient.  I flat out removed the paper scroll with our name and just set it as a part of the gear.  I need to go back and make it all caps.
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Revision as of 15:14, 19 March 2010

Advice for anyone else looking to make a logo-

  • should look when it's both very big, or very very small
  • should look in full color, or simplified to be one color

Here's our logo - it's elsewhere on the site, but I'm putting here because this was the project page and it's easier for me to remember - Thanks nykodemus and preaux for helping the project get to this point. I've just realized there's some clipping issue in this .svg, creases are appearing between shapes. It's visible on the file on my computer, it may be a firefox issue, I'm going to look into it.

Ml logo vector.svg