įor a text only logo with 'How 2 design a logo' on it, I think 400 by 100 seems fine. What is the right logo size? Here is a visual reference of logo sizes. You can either follow each step exactly or be brave and follow my steps but use your ideas, before you know it, you may have designed your dreamed logo.

Import and trace image to use in your design.Ĩ. Edit text: font, size, color, letter/words horizontal and vertical spacing, letter/words oritention and rotation.Ħ. Set up a Grid to guide drawing objects.ĥ. Download Inkscape for the right system bit of your computer.ģ. Without further delay, hope you'll learn the following things quickly out of this Instructable: 1. It's my first time since digital age to download a typeface to my computer. I downloaded a free font called Baystyle typeface by Ekloff and used it in the cover photo of this Instructable ( 'A logo' is Baystyle typeface). I signed up for its blog (I highly recommend again). If not for this contest, I didn't know it exists. I checked out Creative Market (I highly recommend).

I'm teaching myself Inkscape with the book: Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program (4th Edition). As far as graphic design is concerned, If you're a dummy and cheap-y like me, I intend to show you what I have learned very recently: How to design a logo (text, graphic, or text and graphic) in Inkscape (free) and using Creative Market. With that said, if you're a graphic designer, If I haven't lost you yet, except for voting or not voting this Instructable for the Graphic Design Contest, maybe checking out my cooking Instructables is a better thing to do. I get things done on computer if I need to, such as writing Instructables, uploading photos and Youtube videos but I don't understand a thing how computer works, keep forgetting how to upload Youtube videos, etc. That brings up my fourth confession: I'm almost computer illiterate. Third, I don't have professional illustrator software or input tablet, not even a mouse, just a laptop with a touch pad (don't even know that's the right technical name). Second, I don't make money, so I always have to make things that can be bought, including website logo graphic. First, my drawing and designing skills are not even equivalent of a finger painter.

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