Need a text logo

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  • Prize: $75
  • Entries Received: 105
  • Winner: alamin27016

Contest Brief

Logo is for the following brand name: "Nameable"

There should be no extraneous graphics at all. Only text.

Color can be all black. Or it could be 2 different colors. Ideally I don't want to commit to any particular color yet. It would be nice to see a version of the logo with 2 different colors, but I'd want the ability to change what those colors ARE.

Actually, if you want to try some kind of color gradient or shadow to create a cool effect, I'm open to that. Or it can just be black text. One of the font variants I found was called "rust", and I liked the effect. (See attachment.) By saying that, I don't mean that you need to use THAT effect – or any effect at all. But I'm open to ideas to make the logo stand out from other text on the web page or in printed materials – i.e. to look more like a logo. But primarily I care about the font itself and the spacing between letters.

Fonts must be sans serif.

Specifically, it should be written as "NAME" + "able" or else as "NAME" + "ABLE". The first 4 letters must be upper case. The last 4 letters can be lower case or upper case, depending on the font used. I'm looking for a way to differentiate the first 4 letters from the last 4 letters based on font.

The first 4 letters should ideally be in the following font:

"Trade Gothic® Next Condensed Heavy"
https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/trade-gothic-next

If you don't have access to that specific font, then something very similar should be used.

One option I like for the last 4 letters is lowercase in this font:

"Trade Gothic® Next Condensed Bold"
https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/trade-gothic-next

It's slightly different – less weighty. But it's still related to the font in the first 4 letters. I don't want anything distractingly different. The 2 fonts CAN be different. But I definitely don't want squiggly cursive or whacky zany fonts for the last 4 letters. The logo needs to be legible, clear, solid, professional.

Right now what I'm thinking would work is the following:

1. For the lower case "able", shrink the font so that the vertical height of the "a" is equal to the vertical height of 2 prongs of the uppercase "E" – which is the 4th letter – as measured from the very top of the top prong to the bottom of the middle prong.

2. Once the "able" is shrunk to match the spread of 2 prongs of the "E", then raise the "able" so that the top of the "b" reaches the top of the "NAME" and extends down to the bottom of the middle prong of the "E". This will leave some space underneath the "able".

3. This is meant to show the "able" as a kind of exponent – as in mathematics, squaring or cubing or raising to the power of N. The text isn't shrunk very small, but it is lifted up a bit.

4. In the gap underneath the "able", I'd like to try more than 1 thing. It might just be empty space. Or it could be a horizontal line that extends the width of the "able" and which has the vertical width equal to the lower prong of the uppercase "E" in "NAME". Or instead of a solid line it could be a dotted line. Or it could be the suffix ".com" in lowercase, spread out to fall evenly under the 4 letters of "able".

You can be a little bit creative with the "able". I'm open to ideas to some extent. But I've tried to give a clear description of 1 approach that I think WOULD satisfy the objectives.

Alternatively, you could do the following:

1. Shrink the "able" so that the vertical height of the lowercase "a" is equal to the outside width of 2 prongs of the capital "E" (as described above).

2. Keep the "able" aligned to the bottom of the "NAME".

3. As a result of shrinking, the "b" and "l" no longer reach the top of the "NAME". Those 2 letters can have their stems lengthened vertically to reach the top.

See the attached files for a rough sense of what this might look like.

Logo files should allow us (or a future graphic designer) to edit the color through an application such as Adobe Illustrator.

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“Md. Al-Amin provided an impressive variety of logo designs. In addition to the diversity of his own ideas, he listened carefully to my suggestions for modifying them. All of the changes that I requested – big and small – he executed perfectly.”

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  • ImageAuthors
    Contest Holder
    • 4 years ago

    Thanks, everybody. No more logo submissions, please. I have spoken to the contest winner who is finalizing the design.

    • 4 years ago
  • aarafatislam2037
    aarafatislam2037
    • 4 years ago

    please check my entry #349 #350 #351

    • 4 years ago
  • collinsjessica12
    collinsjessica12
    • 4 years ago

    kindly check please #331

    • 4 years ago
  • collinsjessica12
    collinsjessica12
    • 4 years ago

    check #325 #328 #329

    • 4 years ago
  • shantomnbv
    shantomnbv
    • 4 years ago

    please check #299 #297 #290

    • 4 years ago
  • gzuetta
    gzuetta
    • 4 years ago

    Please check my entry #174 Thank you!

    • 4 years ago
  • ImageAuthors
    Contest Holder
    • 4 years ago

    I have now added detailed instructions

    • 4 years ago
    1. arsalan9451
      arsalan9451
      • 4 years ago

      Yes, I have read all. Kindly check entry#4 and do give your feedback. Thanks

      • 4 years ago
  • PixelaraCorp
    PixelaraCorp
    • 4 years ago

    Hi, we-re waiting for instructions.

    • 4 years ago
  • krkindore
    krkindore
    • 4 years ago

    Hi,
    we all are waiting for further instructions.
    regards.

    • 4 years ago
  • milton48
    milton48
    • 4 years ago

    #2 please take a look of the logos I've design this week. I'm at your service, write me.

    • 4 years ago
  • MATLAB03
    MATLAB03
    • 4 years ago

    name of logo?

    • 4 years ago
  • triarq
    triarq
    • 4 years ago

    Hi, what specifications do you need for your design?

    • 4 years ago
  • arsalan9451
    arsalan9451
    • 4 years ago

    Hey, Kindly give some brief to start this contest. Thanks

    • 4 years ago
  • ayubkhanstudio
    ayubkhanstudio
    • 4 years ago

    please

    • 4 years ago
  • ayubkhanstudio
    ayubkhanstudio
    • 4 years ago

    company name will be precise instructions?

    • 4 years ago
  • lookidea07
    lookidea07
    • 4 years ago

    logo name?

    • 4 years ago

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