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which logo should I use?

tominated

tominated

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I have two logos in the running to go onto tominated software design (when i launch it) and cannot choose one. Some people that I have asked like the black and white one, and some like the gradient one. I have given both logos a background in the exampl because that is what colour the background is going to be in the end. Please post constructive criticism. Thanks, Tominated.
 

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Personally I like the second one- with black and white text. Its less jumbled together than the first one, but I think you still need to do something to differenciate "tominated" and "software" from each other, maybe capitalize the 's' in software, so it would be more seperate from one another.
 
What are the Tom Ina Teds of Tware? The lowercase all smooshed together plan is iffy unless the component words are unambiguous.

And the mirror effect is soooo 2005. ;)
 
tominated said:
Please post constructive criticism.
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Try using a more professional font family like Helvetica.

The mirror image isn't doing it for me. If you must have the mirroring effect, alter your "g" so the bottom of the letters are flush, then bring up the reflection so it actually looks like it's sitting on a surface.

If you're not going to use space to separate the words, give it some other distinctive separation. Your choice of black on "design" in the second piece is getting there, but the black and white contrast is perhaps a bit much when the logo is not a two or three color piece.

Try using three colors that complement each other for the three separate words.
 
DigitalAx said:
Try using a more professional font family like Helvetica.

The mirror image isn't doing it for me. If you must have the mirroring effect, alter your "g" so the bottom of the letters are flush, then bring up the reflection so it actually looks like it's sitting on a surface.

If you're not going to use space to separate the words, give it some other distinctive separation. Your choice of black on "design" in the second piece is getting there, but the black and white contrast is perhaps a bit much when the logo is not a two or three color piece.

Try using three colors that complement each other for the three separate words.
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thanks for the input. when you say colours that compliment each other, do you mean like for blue, you would use cyan of for red, you would use magenta (as an example)?
 
tominated said:
thanks for the input. when you say colours that compliment each other, do you mean like for blue, you would use cyan of for red, you would use magenta (as an example)?
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Actually I said "complement," they won't be singing each other's praises. ;)

Color theory is a bit more complicated than we should probably dive into on this thread, but basically you're looking for adjacent or harmonizing colors - these are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

Here's a worthy read.
 
After reading the link from that last post, go here: http://kuler.adobe.com. It's an easy way to input one color (ie, your background blue), and automatically output a complementary color scheme, a triadic one, a split complement, etc. etc. Works pretty well, actually!
 
Personally I much much prefer this logo:
tslogobig.png

image from your website obviously, also looks better when the white stroke is visible

perhaps you can add the word 'design' to it or change 'software' to 'design' ?

if not atleast do something in that kind of style, it feels much more professional and looks a lot nicer
 
Butters said:
Personally I much much prefer this logo:
tslogobig.png

image from your website obviously, also looks better when the white stroke is visible

perhaps you can add the word 'design' to it or change 'software' to 'design' ?

if not atleast do something in that kind of style, it feels much more professional and looks a lot nicer
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as much as i like that logo, I am trying to make the design site have a different look and feel, so that logo just doesn't cut it. how bout this though?
 

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tominated said:
as much as i like that logo, I am trying to make the design site have a different look and feel, so that logo just doesn't cut it. how bout this though?
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First impression: too 80's...

BYW: Why isn't your avatar logo the logo for your browser in my dock? IMO it looks MUCH better...
 
emorydunn said:
Personally I like the second one- with black and white text. Its less jumbled together than the first one, but I think you still need to do something to differenciate "tominated" and "software" from each other, maybe capitalize the 's' in software, so it would be more seperate from one another.
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Yeah I agree the one with the black text looks better plus it's easier to read.
 
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