Logo creators, how do you make your text?

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#1

How do you professional logo designers make your text so straight and perfect?

I’ve been trying repeatedly to improve my penmanship, but there are still some flaws and “shaky” lines, even when I use ruler tools.

Example, here’s an image of a logo I did for someone.

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You can still see the inconsistent thickness of the lines, and general “shakiness” of the text. I completely hand draw everything, and I’m curious if most logo designers do the same thing and are just magical at it, or do they just use font generators or something?

Here is an example done by @s_izzles.

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As you can see, the lines are consistent, the text is event, and holds together.

If you guys do completely hand draw everything, do you have any tips or suggestions for me?

Thanks for your time!

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#2

i dont know about anyone else, but your immage seems to be as professional as some of other ones ive seen.

i think the anwser to the consistent “lines” are just layer management.

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#3

Use an appealing font, maybe skew some of the letters a little different, use a stroke/outline to give it an outline/depth.

For the Ski Simulator ice effect, I think they just colored inside the text, otherwise you could use a gradient to get a similar effect, not as good though.
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I’d recommend messing around with image edit applications like getpaint.net or photoshop, find your own style, mess around with plugins and features, go crazy!

Cheers!

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#4

I probably didn’t scale up the image enough, my bad.

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You can see here evidence of my shaky hands/poor penmanship lol. In the other logos, no such thing exists.

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#5

some might consider that a text style :wink:
if you want total and precise stuff, then they probably use text font engines.

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#6

Here is what you need:

  • Appealing font - as @LargeMakesStuff said
  • Good design in plan
  • Very good skills in adobe illustrartor
  • (Optional) Some pictures that will be for text styling.

I’m not person for making logos but I’m good in designs so these tips will help you.

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#7

Start with a font, apply any of the built-in shapes to achieve some of the curved effects or to make it appear like it pops out the page, and then just adjust its points using the shape tool if you want to tweak the style like the K on the ski example, rather than drawing things from scratch.

You can apply stroke and shadow as effects rather than doing those manually.