I’m not going to dive deep into it here because this is designing vector graphics by hand and I wanted to be spoon-fed for my project. The power of a full vector graphics application is revealed when you choose path. Text and shapes are pretty much what you would expect but it goes bananas after that. You can name the different objects and groups for easy identification, you can lock them so they don’t accidentally get modified and you can use the little eyeball next to each one to turn them on or off.ĭown the far left is a list of object types you can add. To the left is where you manage the different objects in layers and groups. In the center is the artboard where the graphics are displayed. Now that the basic idea of the title of the book cover had been decided, Logoist let me into the main interface. I’m an engineer for crying out loud, you can’t expect that much from me. And of course I chose the first one with a black box and white Ts. I didn’t count how many options they showed me but I’d estimate it as over a hundred variations on this original theme. There were glowing letters, and some truly revolting color combinations, and ones that looked like neon. You might think all the rest of the heavy lifting would be up to me at this point, but Logoist took the original idea of the three stacked words with the T encased in a box, and then showed me a ton of variations on this theme.įor example, they showed me one with the Ts encased in a purple box with a reflection on the bottom. It wasn’t that it was perfect, it was that it gave me the vision that I could modify it to be something awesome. They showed the three words one above the other with the three Ts encased in a black box. When I saw the stacked options, that’s when my eyes lit up. Stacked Suggestions for Taming the Terminal They’ve got sections for them – frames around the words, futuristic, stacked, classic, font effects – so many different styles to help inspire your own creativity. The next page showed me over 200 different logo options for Taming the Terminal. The next page says you can enter a tagline which would be cool, but I moved on. I simply typed in Taming the Terminal for the name, and TTT for the initials and hit the arrow key to move to the next screen. When you first launch Logoist, it starts with an option called “1-2-3 Logo!” It suggests you write a name or initials for your logo in order to generate automatic typography suggestions. Laying Out a Title (as a Logo in Logoist) Logoist Opening to 1-2-3 Logo It won’t be an exhaustive review but rather a real-life use case. Rather than describe all of the available tools and templates in Logoist, I thought it might have more interest if I described how I used Logoist to create the book cover. When it came time to design the cover for the Taming the Terminal book, I decided to give Logoist a try and I’m really pleased with how it came out. Logoist comes with a vast array of templates to get you started, and then they guide you through options to modify what you see so that your design, in the end, is your very own. This is where Logoist 4 from Synium shines /logoist. When it comes to logo design and other kinds of artwork for the podcast, I don’t necessarily know what I want, and I need inspiration. You have to create from whole cloth as the saying goes. I think one of the problems is that traditional tools for creating art first open with a blank slate and a bunch of tools. I’ve tried to use them for real projects, but they’re very daunting applications to me. The art and designs other people create with these tools are simply astonishing. To back up a little bit, I have 2 very powerful vector graphics tools at my disposal: the free Vectornator Pro from vectornator.io/… and the even more advanced $50 Affinity Designer from Serif /…. I’ve done some work with it over the years, but when they released Logoist 4 this year I was definitely hooked. He created it using a little app called Logoist, and the beauty and simplicity of his design inspired me to buy it myself. Back in 2015, Terry Austin designed the fabulous logo you still see today for Chit Chat Across the Pond /blog/2015/10/chitchat-logo/.
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