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Categories: Logo design, logo design software, Logo Design Tools
Written By: Nora Reed
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Most logo designers limit themselves to the basic logo design software like Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Draw. This is common among the young and newbie logo designers, who only have a grip on this rudimentary software. Because of this, their productivity is badly affected. In this competitive world, one must take advantage of the new and innovative tools that are evolving online. Following Online Tools can serve as a storage mart of resources for logo designers. Sometimes, there are things you wish that were pre-made and available to use. For example, instead of creating a pattern or gradient for your logo design, you would fancy a tool that can provide you with customized samples to use. Likewise, there are some fonts that you would like to incorporate in your logo design, but simply cannot remember their names. Instead of wasting time on thinking, wouldn’t it be better to use an online tool that finds the font you visualize? Today I enlist 12 helpful online tools for logo designers that will surely save their time and effort. So make your work more productive by employing these clever online available tools: |
whatthefont |
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Brush Lovers |
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Color Calculator |
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Color Combination Tester |
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Color Mixers |
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Color Scheme Designer |
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Colorotate |
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Font Trainer |
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Fontstruct |
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Identify Fonts |
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Logo Snap |
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Pattern Cooler |
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July 15th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
cool helpful stuff
July 15th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Where’s Adobe Kuler? Great for matching colours, I’d say.
July 15th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
“This is common in the young and newbie logo designers, who only have a grip on this rudimentary software. Because of this, their productivity is badly affected.”
Logo design is not about cheap tricks, clever gadgets, or churning out one bad design after another. I would strongly encourage the use of those so-called “rudimentary” applications for the design and production of well-crafted logos, using some of these tools only as reference or guides in the process.
The last thing our industry needs is another generation of type jockeys who fancy themselves designers simply because they can use a computer to spell a few words in a fancy typeface. Please take time to learn the craft!
July 16th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
I do enjoy these tools that have been made readily available for everyone and must admit I have used such tools in times of need or inspiration but I also have to agree with Martin Bentley Krebs. The design world is being diluted with non-designers turning their hand to an intricate passion driven art form that takes years to learn let alone master.
Jobs are being lost to what I call Vernacular designers who have no formal training but who use pre-thought templates and tools to short cut their way through the design world.
At the risk of turning into one of those pessimistic moaning so and so’s who rip apart ideas on blogs like this, I’ll end on a positive. I must stress that when I started out as a budding graphic designer, I did utilise these tools but I also learnt the skill from the basics.
July 18th, 2011 at 4:20 am
I have been using Color Scheme Designer to create color palettes for some time, but had not heard of ColoRotate. VERY cool. Thanks!
July 24th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Firstly thank you for the post. I agree with Martin Bentley Krebs. Of course there are a few instances where using such softwares/apps. would makes things easier and quicker. But when there is a need to create something simple, these softwares/apps could confound a newbie designer resulting in creating something complicated. I believe that most of the logo designs can always be done on the rudimentary softwares that you’ve mentioned.
September 15th, 2011 at 6:38 am
“This is common in the young and newbie logo designers, who only have a grip on this rudimentary software. Because of this, their productivity is badly affected.”
Logo design is not about cheap tricks, clever gadgets, or churning out one bad design after another. I would strongly encourage the use of those so-called “rudimentary” applications for the design and production of well-crafted logos, using some of these tools only as reference or guides in the process.
The last thing our industry needs is another generation of type jockeys who fancy themselves designers simply because they can use a computer to spell a few words in a fancy typeface. Please take time to learn the craft!