3 Important Steps and Tips for Logo Designing First-Timers

3 Important Steps and Tips for Logo Designing First-Timers

A complete beginner in designing a logo in Singapore? Can't afford a graphic designer?  That's not a problem.

Graphic designers are not the only ones who can make great logo design. With practice, surely anyone can do it. So, the underline is, it requires practice. A lot of practice.

For starters, you will be able to come up with something brilliant and explore your skills for future logo-making purposes if you follow these steps and tips.

1. Fully understand the brand

It is important to have a thorough understanding of the brand for which you're creating a logo in order to know what type of logo would best convey the brand's purpose, goal, and core values. 

So, the first step of making a logo design is by researching the brand.

As you research the brand, you have to know the type of customer, the competition of that brand, the keywords that describe the brand, the company name and slogan, and so on. The more you know, the better design you can make.

2. Master the basics of designing a logo

To be able to design a logo, surely you have to know how to do it with the right software. Find tutorials and familiarize yourself with all the required tools for it.

Discover how to build an effective logo. To begin, it is crucial to understand that many of the most memorable logos of major brands are simple yet definitely memorable.  They're one-of-a-kind and adaptable, allowing them to shine in a variety of settings. Those well-known logos effectively convey the company's message, and as a result, they are quickly recognized and recalled by the customers, even ones who are not their buyers.

When designing a logo, it is also very important to understand graphic hierarchy so you can figure out which information is most relevant and how to direct people's attention to that focal point. Use appropriate fonts, colours, and sizes, among other things to achieve the right balance for your logo.

You may create a word mark logo that only contains your brand name, a logo that includes your company icon or initials, or a logo that combines both. The use of hierarchy in graphic design is also affected by the judgment.

After that, make the design that you want. Logo styles are becoming more inventive these days. You have the option of making it a circle, rectangle, rectangular, triangle, or some other shape with a theme that matches the brand.

3. Choose the colours and fonts.

You should add a splash of colour to your logo in this process. The colours you choose should also represent your brand because they help to shape people's perceptions of what kind of brand you are. So, in this step, you must choose carefully. The same can be said for font choices.

Fonts undoubtedly impair legibility, which can affect how effective a logo is at engaging with consumers as they see it.

So, those are the tips that you must understand. Have you noted them down? Once done, you can start making your logo design today.