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5 Important Points to Consider for Your Logo Design

The world, both physical and virtual, is highly competitive now. You have to find a way to catch attention, to stand out, to quickly inform people about your business or person, to make them remember it. That’s what branding has to do for you. And logo design lies in the core of effective brand identity. In this article, we are going to discuss the factors that have crucial importance for creating a good logo.

Brand Nature

The creative process starts much before the first line on the paper or the digital artboard. It begins with understanding your brand, defining its nature, and only then thinking about the visual image transferring the needed idea. Make sure you can answer the following questions:

  • What problem does the brand solve?
  • What emotion does the brand reflect?
  • Is it commercial or social?
  • Whom does it help or bring benefits?
  • What’s its tone of communication, formal or informal, friendly or teaching, etc.?
  • What are the channels it uses to communicate?
  • Who are your competitors? How does your brand differ from them?

Based on that, you will be able to shape a better understanding of what the brand sign and identity should transfer to customers, visitors, and users.

Target Audience

Another essential point is the target audience of the brand. The more you know about it, the better you’ll find the way to its attention. Before you start working on any graphic decisions, try to get as much information about your future customers as possible. Take into account the age, gender, geography, and culture differences, religion, the typical environment of interaction with the product. That will help you to build the sign that will talk right to the needed people, uses needed colors and visual associations, and corresponds to their preferences.

Type

There are different visual types of logos: some of them use only a simple symbol, some mean the beautiful typographic presentation of the company name or at least its first letter, some combine both the symbol and the typographic part, and there are also the ones that give their preference to the complex and detailed emblems.
The choice of the type depends on not only the target audience research we mentioned above but also the market research. Take into account the logos of your competitors, so that your sign could stand out and attract people.

Color

Color is one of the crucial choices you will have to make in the process of logo creation. It has a great influence on the decision-making process whatever we interact with. It’s not a secret that color brings a strong emotional appeal, and people have strong associations on what emotion the color brings. What’s more, color is a great factor in drawing attention: playing with contrasts and brightness, you give your logo more chances to get noticed. So, the right choice of color will help your brand sign to reach its target and tell more about the brand.

Image: Devaughn Narratives

Channels and Carriers

One more point of importance is channels and ways through which you are going to reach your target customers. Firstly, it may influence the choice of colors and shapes for your logo design so that it looked and worked properly in the environment you’ve chosen for communication. Secondly, it means the final version of the logo should be tested well on screens of different sizes and resolutions, in various environments, as well as physical surfaces in case the logo will be used not only around the web but on tangible items. You may also need not only color but a monochrome version to be more flexible in your promotional plans. Sure, logo guidelines from a designer help much to make that all properly.

There are different ways to get a logo design: to design it by yourself, to hire a designer, or to use a logo maker. Anyway, being aware of the points mentioned in this article, you get higher chances to explain your brand more precisely and make the impactful decision to end up getting an attractive and effective logo.

About the author: this is the guest post from LogoMyWay

Title image: logo design concept by Yoga Perdana

 

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