These logos need better typography!

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@Stygg—

Good going! Nice use of more interesting and appropriate fonts. I thought the whole point of posting this was to get good designers to think about typefaces; how to use them as creatively as you would brush strokes. By the way, "Dominick" is FontShop's name for the industry standard "Dom Casual", available online just about everywhere, and sometimes legally.

@mwenz, you nailed it in one, and I got something coming up here that you'd like to critiqué,,,because it's my work. :)

@Frances, thank you for getting the ball rolling! Your versions are a definite improvement and I'm happy that you're "thinking font" here!

@Albacore: your observations are astute ones. And agreed, these guys aren't the easiest to work with, but nevertheless I'd like to see you improve one of the logos with your suggestion(s). And because you prompted me, I did vector copies of two of the logos for members to download. Oh, Crikers..I'm getting to the Monthly Giveaway again. :(



Davida for the headline; I thought if I angled the cup enough, the top of the drawing would be as good a place as on the side. I modeled the mug, and then used Cinema 4D's Sketch feature to posterize/cartoon the render. Then it was off to Vector Magic to pull the vectors. You might want to improve upon these auto-traces. Take 'em, split your commission 50/50 with me if you sell one of these. :)

I uses Mona Lisa Solid for the sub-text and then a frilly vector ampersand (see below).



Blackmoor—it's one of Dieter Steffmann's fonts you can easily look up and download for the headline and then Arts & Crafts for the sub-text. I just did a search for "Arts & Crafts" and scored a large number of free downloads of stuff that's close to the Dave Fabik "Willow" typeface I used in this example. Also you can do a search on "Renee Mackintosh", and I'm sure "Dyer" is free...and it's actually quite nice.


Oh, I also noticed that there's a of design opportunities here to use a fancy, frilly ampersand instead of the word "and". "And" :) so I've included some & that I've traced off from fonts on the web. I think one is from Pistilli, in case anyone likes the font.




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