Learn How to Create an Illustrator Logo Blog

Many people find that one thing that makes this task more intimidating is the thought of designing it with an Adobe Illustrator. In order to assist you in getting started, we've put together an easy-to-follow tutorial to help you create logos in Illustrator.

 5 Steps for Making an Illustrator Logo

 Step 1: Set Up Your Document

When you sit down to make a logo with Illustrator, it's easy to find yourself overwhelmed by the options available to you. Therefore, before doing anything that even resembles design work, let's take an review of the fundamentals of making a template.

To get started, click to click the " Create new" button located on the left edge of the screen. Select the Letter presets. A majority of them will work perfectly for a basic logo, but quickly double make sure that the presets you choose include the following features:

• Orientation: Portrait mode
• Color Mode: CMYK Color
• Effects of Raster: High

Once we've got this out of the way now, we can press"Create". Click the " Create" button and get started.

 Step 2: Set Up Your Workspace

But when you think about the best way to create an image within Illustrator, we'll keep things straightforward and utilize the Painting workspace. To get started, simply select the Workspaces icon located in the upper-right corner of your screen and select Painting.

There are a few things to note once you've switched Workspaces. The right side of the screen, you'll have easy accessibility to Illustrator's brush swatches, color swatches symbols and strokes -- among numerous different tools. We'll use them later on during this tutorial however, make note of it here.

Most importantly, let's take a look at the main toolbar located on the left side on the left-hand side. It's where you'll discover some of the most important tools to use when designing your logo.

Oh yeah, your brand name. Let's draw it.

 Step 3: Begin Using Shapes

If you look up tips about how to design a logo in Illustrator, you'll find quite complex (and overwhelming) suggestions. For this project we'll make things easy. It's our belief that simple designs could help you develop a standout logo.

See the picture below. You'll see that we're starting with a simple design ,which you can find by clicking the fourth icon from the top that's shaped like an elongated rectangle. Click long-click to view all of the options available, including a rectangular Tool, Ellipse Tool, Polygon Tool, Star Tool and The Line Segment Tool.

Let's try the Rectangle Tool right now. Rectangles aren't super exciting they aren't particularly exciting, however Illustrator can be used to modify them using a range of methods. Take a look at the GIF below to learn how to create a logo using this software.

For this, you must select to use the Direct Selection tool and then drag it across the corners that you want to modify. When you're done, you'll notice an corners radius tool on each corner. Drag them towards the center of the rectangle, which will alter the angle and size of the whole shape.

It's just the beginning of what (we believe) will become a more usable logo. Once we've got an idea of what we can do with it and we're going to add texts, lines as well as other components to create a logo that stands out.

 Step 4: Add Lines, Color and Other Objects

For more colors to our shape below, click on the Selection Tool on the right side of the Main Menu. After that, click in the middle of your shape. To add a color, choose one from the Swatches menu. Feeling lost? Be assured that we've have created you a GIF.

Now let's include some lines in order to do this, we'll have to make a layer. For creating a brand new layer, go to the Layersmenu and select to click the + icon. It will place your newly created layer in the top position of the menu, which is the goal we're trying to achieve.

After we've created two layers, simply click the box that is empty next to the icon which resembles an eyeball next to Layer 1. It will secure that layer and help us avoid doing any changes to the layer as we are adding our lines onto Layer 2.

To add a line, choose the Pen Tool in the Primary Menu. You can then hover in the center of the image until you can see "center" appear as small purple text. When you have found the middle of the icon, hold the Shift button and click. To draw a line simply choose an edge of the icon that you'll like to draw towards and then press to draw the line along the edges of the image. When you've drawn your line, press the V key to end. Repeat the process as numerous times that you'd like.

You'll see that we have an image to choose from and it's not make a huge difference to our logo. If you want to change the way that line appears, click towards the Appearance menu that is located on the right edge of your screen. The screenshots below that we've changed the line to 12pt, which will make a big difference.

 Phase 5: Add Text

We've also added patterns and lines in our logo. That's a great starting point, but is this the final step in our guide about how to make the logo? Nope--it's time to add some texts.

Start by selecting to start, click on the Typing Tool on the Menu Main. Move it around a section of your document to reveal the editor.

We'd certainly not ever actually apply the conventional Lorem ipsum text which Illustrator generates. The box you've created, enter the text you'd like add to your logo. Choose a font, and font size in the Character menu at the top of your screen.

Let's now include our message on the icon. Make use of the Selection Tool to move it over the image.

As we've utilized an uncolored background for the majority of our images so we'll make the text transparent. To accomplish this, mark the text in the highlighted area and then go to the Appearance menu. Then, change to change the Stroke as well as the Fill color to white.

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