Advice on a Logo?

[Ascension]

I've been using my "stylized A/pyramid with wings" logo as a brush so that I can put it on anything and not worry about the background, color, size, or anything. As a brush I can plop it down, put in any background I want, change the color or add layer styles...totally editable stylewise. So my point is that you should probably do something similar and that way it will never clash with the colors or paper of a map. If you want to emphasize more than just fantasy then make the M something techy or sci-fi. Or do away with the initials and include full text; put Fantastic in something gothic or scripty on top of Maps as something sans serif and techy.

[Diamond]

I've been using my "stylized A/pyramid with wings" logo as a brush so that I can put it on anything and not worry about the background, color, size, or anything. As a brush I can plop it down, put in any background I want, change the color or add layer styles...totally editable stylewise.

That's what I do as well, with my 'JW' in a box.

[Notsonoble]

Maybe I'm odd, but I think you had it right on the first covertest looks better, the transparent background looks more like a logo "drawn on the parchment" while the solid background looks "tapped on later"... It may mean fighting with the color for the text a tad more for all your covers... but I really liked it there.

[torstan]

Okay, a quick update.





Here I moved the M out of the way of the center of the logo - it was getting muddled up with the rest of the lines. I'm not sure this works yet though....

@Carnifex - the arrow is to highlight the direction of the compass, and also to make it more than just a straightforward spined compass rose. I agree that the overall colours were too different for it to fit with the compass. I've knocked it back a bit to help it blend in here. I'd be interested to hear if people think this is better or worse.

@RobA - I think I will do that - but I'll be holding off on that until I can finalise a font! Redoing those each time would get wearing....

@Ascension - That's an interesting idea. I'll have to play with that. I don't really use layer styles yet. I should really get into those. I agree about wanting to avoid being pigeonholed as pure Fantasy, but actually I prefer making fantasy maps to sci-fi so I'm not too bothered by shoehorning a tech font in there.

Hmmm - tried it on a different background and it looks a bit rubbish. Hmmm. Will have to do a little re-thinking....

[torstan]

And tested out on a cover. This required a little fiddling before I could get anything that looked even partially reasonable... Not sure this is the right way to go. For this to work I'd need to bump the whole background up to the tone of the background in the original logo and that looks a bit weird. Any thoughts or advice gratefully taken!

[Jaxilon]

Well I don't have much experience with Logos but it seems to me this should be a little more like the face of a watch.

Why not drop the letters on the base and have the compass over them like an analog watch. I think we will still be able to see the 'F' & 'M'. I also like the fancier letters but that's a minor preference.

When it's all said and done I would like a set of cuff-links please <-- Which I think you should promptly have made for yourself because how cool would that be?

[NeonKnight]

I would say, go with a more solid background, one that is different from the image /not transparent.



As you can see, comparing to yours above, the logo stands out and is more easily discernible as being seperate from the map image. The Logo to the Left of the one I de-did looks more like the Map's Actual Compass Rose, and could be 'ignored' when viewing.

[tilt]

I would say, go with a more solid background, one that is different from the image /not transparent.

I agree with NeonKnight - use a solid background - and I would frame it too, thats a common way to use a logo on a colored background. Then you get consistency in your logo and you don't have to match the background to fit it. And if you want, you could spell out the name in the bottom of the frame too - in small letters

[torstan]

I didn't even think of doing that. /hangs head. That looks rather good, and can certainly be done up to look nice and natty on any given background...

[tilt]

layerstyles are very easy - just adjust into the look you want and click save