Language Knowledge and Lore

lklawless · #1 (**permalink**) 06-23-2005, 06:33 PM

Hi -

I'm having a logo designed, and it's pretty close to done (still a couple of tweaks) but I'm beginning to wonder if it's too busy. I'd love to hear your comments:

See Logo Here

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webhost1 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-24-2005, 12:24 AM

A lot of white space. Might make it smaller. Seems to be a big file.

Might make the guy a little smaller, which in turn would bring down those words above it.

**jawn_tech** · #3 (**permalink**) 06-25-2005, 05:19 PM

Welcome to WPW, lklawless!

Overall, I think it's a great logo. To offer a critique, the fountain of language names above the person graphic may stand out a tad bit too tall. While it does add to the logo, it may compromise the uniformity and balance. Perhaps the graphic could be moved down so the bottom is level with the bottom text, which would reduce that section of the logo's height. While looking at the logo in its large state, the languages are legible. Depending on how reduced in size the logo will be, it may be adventageous to not even have them for a smaller graphic, rather than have tiny unreadble words.

Great color scheme, fonts, and originality!

lklawless · #4 (**permalink**) 06-27-2005, 12:37 PM

Thank you both for your comments. I agree about the height of the "fountain" but I'm torn because I think it looks so cool.

I'll keep working on it - thanks again.

MarcieZoob · #5 (**permalink**) 06-29-2005, 06:45 AM

If the font is resized to a smaller dimension, I think the letter G is going to be hard to read. It looks a lot like the letter C to me...

ReviewGolf.com · #6 (**permalink**) 07-01-2005, 11:25 AM

It's clean, it’s fun, it has uneven proportions that would make it difficult to scale.

The top part, with the fireworks and languages looks a bit to busy compared with the rest and does forces you to keep a lot of wasted real estate above the main name.

If this logo is intended for a website, you may want to try to scale it already. Most likely you'll need to beef-up the spirals within the letters.

Knowledge and lore is unjustifiably HUGE and carries useless statement. I think the bottom one FREE ONLINE lessons is what you are trying to convey -- so why is it smaller? Currently the two taglines compete for attention. If you must keep both, put them on the same line, may keep the colors as are.

Cleanup, scale down and you're done.

andrewtcrane · #7 (**permalink**) 07-12-2005, 11:42 PM

I like the fountain, but you might have to sacrifice it due to the empty real estate, as ReviewGolf mentioned.

If you do decide to keep it, I think it might be fun to change "Spanish" to "español" and "French" to "français".

I also feel that "Knowledge and Lore" and "Free Online Lessons" are competing. Experiment with italicizing Free Online Lessons and try some of the other suggestions as well. It's almost there!

Andrew