It is about time that KalaaLog gets a logo of its own.
I intended to style KalaaLog in a sort of evolutionary way, and thus, I would be adding elements to it one after another. And having a logo was one of the first things that had to be done after the set up of the blog using the Wordpress engine.
After a couple of hours of work using Inkscape it is finally done.
I did not use a specific process in creating this logo as I am not formally trained in any design course, so if the process not a common approach, I would be glad to get some insights from you.
Here is how I went about creating the logo for KalaaLog.
To begin with, I wanted to look out for a font that had an artistic taste. After going through the standard set of Serif fonts, it seemed that KalaaLog required something along the Sans-Serif lines and yet be artistic. Browsing through the various fonts available at dafont, I came across Dream Orphans.
Dream Orphans is a nice Sans-Serif font provided by Larabie Fonts that has nice artistic touch to the typographical elements of the fonts.
Once the font face was finalized, I went about styling it a bit more, to have the ‘art’ element in it.
The bottom curve of ‘g’ in KalaaLog dropped below the line that the bottom parts of the other letters made. I drew up this imaginary line to a solid line and then stroked out another artistic curve along the curve of g.
Then it was adding the artistic-flora element at the two ends to finalize the logo. Both of them were derived from a basic set of strokes that was inspired from various similar artistic works.
I used them all together, and since it was in vector format, I scaled it to the desired dimensions, and hooked it into the header.
KalaaLog has a logo now.
How did you create your logo?
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March 14, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Hitansu
Nice logo.
U r really very energitic and creative.
Hope to seee many more blogs in near future