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MyBrandNewLogo – A 3-step Logo Generator

365 points by andy_adams 8y ago

WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago
Interesting, I like it.
choeger 8y ago
That's surprisingly good
throwaway2016a 8y ago
I was hoping https://mybrandnewlogo.com/how-it-works https://mybrandnewlogo.com/how-it-works was a little more in depth of how it actually works but I suppose if they gave away their secret they wouldn't make any money :) I'm guessing they have a stock library of vector art somewhere. I'd love to know what library / libraries they have used. Edit / added: On a different topic. I routinely by logos from Fiverr for about slightly more than these (typically $80 - $100) and generally speaking the one's from fiver weren't using any stock art.
- andy_adams 8y ago
  I had a difficult time with the "keywords" portion - I'm assuming they're tying keywords to an icon library. It'd probably be more useful to have a list of words to select from, rather than guessing which ones will be useable by their algorithm.
  - monokai_nl 8y ago
    It would indeed be a good idea to have some sort of suggestion UI in this step.
- jszymborski 8y ago
  The way that a lot of these logo generators work is actually using Noun Project[0], which keeps very good tags for vector icons. [0] https://thenounproject.com/ https://thenounproject.com/
  - kingosticks 8y ago
    That's an incredible resource. Thanks so much for posting. I'm wondering how the licenses apply if I modify an icon, or merge two together. Happy to attribute both authors but would that even be allowed? Edit: it is. > Yes, you can modify and build upon the symbol as long as you follow proper attribution requirements. You can use the icon for free as long as you attribute, or pay via a NounPro subscription
  - fuzzywalrus 8y ago
    Well played, I searched the terms I used and immediately found the "logos" here.
- dawnerd 8y ago
  Do you have anyone on fivver you'd recommend in particular? I've had pretty bad luck with designers just reusing logos but charging full rate.
  - _eht 8y ago
    It’s pretty easy to do your own due diligence. Just look at reviews and past projects. Contact them and ask for more of their portfolio; it’s an interview after all. If they do a poor job even after that, make sure you review it fairly with detail so that others don’t fall into their trap. You also have control of releasing funds, which can be used last resort as leverage for them to try again if they delivered poorly. It’s a little more work to find the good ones but they are there, and in my experience the extra effort can save you a lot of money.
dawnerd 8y ago
That made some logos Im very interested in (and we happen to be looking for a new logo). Just wondering if the icons are internally created or from another collection? Edit: Looks like they're not unique icons, damn. Edit 2: Since they're using nounproject, I hope they're properly licensing the works and not just assuming they're creative commons so it's free. I'm not seeing any credits given on their site or anything about the logo including the royalty free license.
- slig 8y ago
  They have a paid API [1]. So I believe they're paid users and paid users don't have to attribute. [1]: https://thenounproject.com/developers/ https://thenounproject.com/developers/
  - dawnerd 8y ago
    Their api guides say you can’t resell so that’s why I’m confused I guess.
- monokai_nl 8y ago
  Everything is properly licensed via a paid API subscription.
- taneq 8y ago
  Wouldn't it be a bad idea to base your logo on a creative commons work?
  - dawnerd 8y ago
    Yeah that immediately turned me off.
blunte 8y ago
This is very well done, both in the results I got from using it and the UI experience while using it.
ghostbox54 8y ago
Feels like a rip off of https://www.launchaco.com/logo https://www.launchaco.com/logo which is free. Someone else asked how they did it, well their code is hosted on github here https://github.com/launchaco/logo_builder https://github.com/launchaco/logo_builder
giarc 8y ago
I don't really see any difference between this and the others such as Logojoy. What I don't like about these services is that some tout AI generated logos etc etc when really they just take some input and generate the same logos over and over. There is no real AI going on.
- nkozyra 8y ago
  Pedantically, AI really encompasses and represents a broad range of ML approaches, many of which are fundamentally just algorithmic. If there's a rubric for producing these and its intended to simulate the approach a human might take, one could argue it's artificial intelligence.
  - hk__2 8y ago
    More pedantically, there’s no intelligence in ML; AI doesn’t exist (yet).
    - Yen 8y ago
      This devolves really quickly into debates on semantics. Which is not a bad thing, but it means it's important to be clear on definitions. I've heard Artificial Intelligence snarkily defined as "whatever computers can't do" - once a human understands the problem well enough to make a computer solve it, solving the problem is no longer "AI". What this says about human intelligence, if-and-when a computer can perform the full set of tasks a human can perform, is left as an exercise to the reader. In any case, right now, a computer can provide answers to certain problems much more quickly and accurately than a human, and can provide more optimal answers. Whether a particular computer does this via hand-tuned heuristics, brute force applied to simple algorithms, or statistics over massive data sets, or some magic "AI" voodoo, it does it.
  - taneq 8y ago
    > many of which are fundamentally just algorithmic. Are there non-algorithmic approaches to ML?
martin_drapeau 8y ago
Awesome UX and the results were surprisingly great. Really love this tool.
yobananaboy 8y ago
hahahahahah try putting dirty things in there, the logos are comedy gold
- itslennysfault 8y ago
  Right there with you... nsfw: https://imgur.com/PoP8dtv https://imgur.com/PoP8dtv
  - excalibur 8y ago
    This is fun :D https://imgur.com/a/gXF9Xwb https://imgur.com/a/gXF9Xwb
got2surf 8y ago
This is really cool, some great logo redesign inspiration. A couple of thoughts: 1) If you make the logo designs page shareable (step 2, https://mybrandnewlogo.com/logo-designs https://mybrandnewlogo.com/logo-designs), I would love to get feedback from a few people. If you don't want to store things persistently, even storing the input params (name, color, slogan, etc) in the URL would be great. 2) I love that the name can be read as my "brand new" logo, or as my brand, new logo.
- timmonsjg 8y ago
  I went to share results with coworkers and came to the same realization you did.
- monokai_nl 8y ago
  1. If you register and save your logo, you'll get a page that you can share, for example: https://mybrandnewlogo.com/share/2P1qwAO85EtvRNgvkQGn https://mybrandnewlogo.com/share/2P1qwAO85EtvRNgvkQGn You can share a couple of your logo pages on social, and gather feedback from your friends. 2. That's the idea, glad you like it :)
  - got2surf 8y ago
    Cool, thanks! That's a good enough value prop for me to register :)
tyingq 8y ago
I do like that the front page examples are all of logos that remain recognizable when you render them in just 2 color black and white. Too many logos out there are aren't really "logos".
- monokai_nl 8y ago
  When you purchase a logo package, you'll actually get multiple color variants: full color, black and white, white on transparent, black on transparent, etc.
FearNotDaniel 8y ago
What, no kerning?
- astrodust 8y ago
  Proper keming is an extra 50€
jcoffland 8y ago
I used 99designs a few years back to get my company's logo. It was cheap, fast and good. You get to choose from several designs submitted by real designers and work with them to fine tune it. I am still very happy with the results. This service has pretty generic results, IMO.
- huhtenberg 8y ago
  99designs = 50% clip art + 50% blatant rips of existing logos + the StackOverflow logo. That is, be sure to check you didn't end up with a stolen logo.
  - astrodust 8y ago
    Should be like 99percentchanceofbeingstolen as those sites basically encourage logo theft. There's no other way to make money at those rates.
levesque 8y ago
Seems very nice, but it also appears like they have few stock images per keyword/topic and they would be overused after a relatively short time. Am I not getting something? Are they supposed to take out an image once the logo is sold?
- bluedino 8y ago
  Similiar to Vistaprint. I can tell who used them when they give me their business card.
davelondon 8y ago
Are there any of these logo design apps that are actually free? (e.g. to get the SVG file?) I just need a quick placeholder logo for a blog so I don't want to spend $$
- andy_adams 8y ago
  You can try https://logomakr.com/ https://logomakr.com/ - they have an upsell, but you can get the basic version of the logo for free.
YeahSureWhyNot 8y ago
waste of time
Fauntleroy 8y ago
The most amusing thing about this website is that they obviously had an actual designer do some work on it at some point, yet it implies that designers can be easily automated out of the process. All of the "logos" this thing generates are completely thoughtless: it simply searches the Noun project based on your inputs for a vector image, then sets it next to a random typeface. Anyone with a modicum of design experience can tell you that these "logos" that it generates are a complete joke. If you're honestly considering using one of these yourself, just head to the noun project and search for an icon to plop down next to your favorite typeface—you'll probably come up with a better result.
- duxup 8y ago
  I think most of these are sort of "logos for the masses" type things. They're not replacing a professional designer as much as they're there for folks who don't have a designer / not going to but would like a logo.
  - DonaldPShimoda 8y ago
    Yeah, to me this seems great if you're working on an open-source project or are just barely getting off the ground and just need some sort of logo. I can see myself using this for silly projects where I just want to have a placeholder or temporary logo for a made-up name while I think about what I really want it to look like.
    - duxup 8y ago
      Yeah some little side project of mine, want logo, can't make fancy pics... there ya go.
    - hadlock 8y ago
      All of our internal webapps use some sort of logo on their readme.md, generated from sites like these None of our internal webapps produce revenue or are customer facing, but developers like some kind of identity for their pet projects. These sites are perfect for this sort of thing.
aboutruby 8y ago
Register returns "something went wrong" (in a 200 response code :) ). Great site BTW!
nyx_ 8y ago
Mine came out pretty good. I'm impressed. https://i.imgur.com/gogGNws.png https://i.imgur.com/gogGNws.png
nineteen999 8y ago
So the output pretty much looks like your average .io domain website then.
casper345 8y ago
I typed in "cocoon" and it gave me typewriters as my logos...Nice website, but deliverable, not great. Silver-lining: There will "always" be work for designers who take their time to understand the depth behind a logo/company and create something unique.
whoisjuan 8y ago
Step 1: Load a bunch free font families Step 2: Load a bunch of icons with alt names. Step 3: Randomize 1 and 2 as well as position and colors. I wish good design was algorithmically that simple, but is not. These are good logos for maybe a placeholder or testing something out, but they will never have the quality of a real well thought design.
- dc_gregory 8y ago
  Was thinking much the same; we have a product[1] in the same space, but a much larger inventory, all created by hand. Not sure the "AI" space for design is quite good enough for this price point. [1] https://www.brandcrowd.com/maker https://www.brandcrowd.com/maker
  - giarc 8y ago
    I actually really like your service! However the pricing isn't obvious on the site.
    - dc_gregory 8y ago
      Thanks! The core team working on this is super smart. I'll pass your feedback on pricing to our product manager.
- anonytrary 8y ago
  That's true, but if you parameterize enough variables and generate enough combinations, you'll eventually find a result with great design. For a non-designer like myself who might want a neat logo on a software project I'm working on, randomly generating stuff like this and picking the best one is something I'd try before opening up Illustrator or hiring someone. I think the main problem with this service is that the parameters are probably pretty simple and it's gonna mostly output generic patterns.
monokai_nl 8y ago
Author here. Happy to answer any questions.
- airstrike 8y ago
  Off-topic: Thank you for creating monokai!
  - monokai_nl 8y ago
    Hah, glad you enjoy it! Never thought that something I created 13 years ago would still be so widely in use :)
jessaustin 8y ago
These logos are as good as those I've seen produced by "professional" graphic designers. That isn't the ringing endorsement one might imagine it to be.
m0meni 8y ago
Someone could trivially put all sites like this out of business by creating a chrome extension that just extracts the SVGs it shows you from the page and downloads them.
HugoDaniel 8y ago
shameless plug You can also try some custom shapes and patterns with https://gridgenerator.com https://gridgenerator.com :) Here are some examples: https://www.instagram.com/gridgenerator/ https://www.instagram.com/gridgenerator/
- biosed 8y ago
  SSL Cert date error
  - HugoDaniel 8y ago
    Thankx! fixed :)
codetrotter 8y ago
I think I found a bug. If you put an emoji in the slogan the generated logos all come up empty!
- monokai_nl 8y ago
  The final logos are created with vector shapes from the font files. There are no fonts that include emojis, so that's why the system couldn't create any logo for you. I should display a better message explaining this, thanks.
weknowbetter 8y ago
So how does trademark work with a logo that is essentially made entirely out of CC artwork? Wouldn't another company be able to legally "steal" your logo in theory?
m19n 8y ago
Input fields on register form cannot be selected on iOS (native browser and Firefox)
azhenley 8y ago
Careful, if the page refreshes then you'll lose all your options! I did like quite a few of them too, even without giving a slogan or any keywords.
- monokai_nl 8y ago
  Maybe it's good to have an extra confirmation popup after 5 times clicking "make more logos" when the page refreshes, thanks.
DLA 8y ago
My trials yielded tons of company name + some variation of a star combination ... not very creative. The three descriptive words seemed to have little impact on the results whereas a quality designer would leverage the descriptive words to anchor ideas/concepts.
fuckyah 8y ago
love it https://mybrandnewlogo.com/share/Ng5gWmBmKJTzyy1XRz5Y https://mybrandnewlogo.com/share/Ng5gWmBmKJTzyy1XRz5Y
apo 8y ago
Really well done. I especially like that there's a "pricing" tab, although I missed that at first. From the tab: One low-resolution logo file as inspiration for your designer. Some commenters didn't like the service b/c the results look too "generic." I see this as a different kind of service that fills a very particular need: people rarely know what they want in a logo if that's not their area of focus. Being able to flip through some possibilities and make simple changes on the fly makes it a lot easier to figure out what you want.
danhodgins 8y ago
After you get your logo done you might find you have an ongoing need for a bunch of day-to-day, maintenance graphic design. If that sounds like you then check out Design Butler™ --> https://designbutler.co https://designbutler.co. We provide Unlimited Graphic Design (flat rate, all-inclusive) - web, print, social, infographics, presentations and more.
yantrams 8y ago
[Selfplug] If you want to see how similar your logo is compared to stock icons from the noun project database or logos of the top million websites, you can try these services that I built as part of my research into shape similarity. http://compute.vision/nouns/index.html http://compute.vision/nouns/index.html http://compute.vision/brands/index.html http://compute.vision/brands/index.html These aren't the latest iterations of the algorithm but they fare pretty well most of the times. Here are the results for the logo of Mybrandnewlogo: http://compute.vision/nouns/index.html?barnacles=https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/logoloads/OK5G9NBJCOYSDVQV http://compute.vision/nouns/index.html?barnacles=https://s3.... http://compute.vision/brands/logo-results.html?uhash=HTH0LBUJJ4BEYYI7 http://compute.vision/brands/logo-results.html?uhash=HTH0LBU... Edit: Formatting
pavbelshippable 8y ago
Wow, this logo generator is so amazing. Lol, hope logo designers don't get out of the job. But seriously speaking, for small businesses, this is a great tool. I have seen people charging hundreds of dollars just for a logo these days, so this tool is an easy growth hack for startups. Added this to my list of growth hacking tools for startups https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JtTcBeZ0U3arpYthIrvdYRZoYA0ga-devDO2AktuGI/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JtTcBeZ0U3arpYthIrv...
sharninder 8y ago
I don't get the hate this one's getting. I don't think Apple or Google are going to use a site like this for getting their logos made but there are millions of other blogs, social media handles who don't mind a decent looking logo or an idea they can customise further. I think this is an excellent effort and I can already see myself using it.
- me45555 8y ago
  Agreed!
rawoke083600 8y ago
Ja not bad... I will give the usual props for getting a side project out and launched (That really is the hard part for me at least". It is a bit broken on mobile (at least for me - borked spacing). *Side rant: But I really want a decent-website-redesign service(just concept no css or anything). My current site(https://www.fibretiger.co.za https://www.fibretiger.co.za) looks like a Christmas tree that took psychedelics.. :/ I've always been put off by the high cost of the "design-competitions" like 99Designs cause I could just see them recycling bootstrap themes with better colours:/
tobr 8y ago
This is about as valuable as a “3-Step Code Generator” that asks you for a few words that describe what your code should do, then takes a random code snippet and inserts your words as variable names. A small business may not be able to afford a programmer, but still have a use for decent code. Or, you could use it as inspiration for a programmer you hire later!
yantrams 8y ago
Quite impressed with the way this handled some edge cases I tried out. (Four word company name with the third word having 20 characters, twenty word string etc.) I'm sure a lot of thought went into algorithmizing how to best represent a string of unbroken text in a given space and make it look good at the same time. Edit: Grammar
- monokai_nl 8y ago
  Thanks. There's lots of math going on to make sure the visual parts are positioned nicely. Not everything always works perfectly, but I think for most cases it's working well.
stanislavb 8y ago
Some nice alternatives: * Logojoy * LogoPony * Logomaster.ai * brandmark.io ref: https://www.saashub.com/my-brand-new-logo-alternatives https://www.saashub.com/my-brand-new-logo-alternatives
anonytrary 8y ago
Before I clicked the link, I expecting this to be pretty useless, but I was pleasantly surprised. I'm sure lots of thought went into logos like Electron's or Angular, but at the end of the day, there just needs to be a catchy symbol people can visualize when they think of your project. That said, I probably wouldn't use these logos for an app or anything that needs a strong brand, but they're perfect for little Github projects. They're kinda generic, which is what I expected, but there was more variation in the generated logos than I expected there to be. Even if the designs are pretty generic, I can see this being pretty useful for non-designers who wanna write a library that has a semblance of an attractive README.
mprev 8y ago
Perhaps our view of the affordability of logo design is coloured by those $250,000 rebranding exercises we hear about from large corporations. In the UK, a freelance designer's hourly is, in my experience, around £50. If you have an idea of what you want, a good designer would be able to give you some options and a full logo pack in a day's work. Sure, that's unaffordable in a lot of circumstances but, if you're designing a logo for a business, it's not gonna be one of your largest expenses.
Kagerjay 8y ago
Looks great especially for generating logo ideas
sireat 8y ago
This worked better than I expected. For a quick project this is better than going to fiverr. I made an ACME logo using mountain as a tag and got a nice mixture of logos with various mountains. So obviously a nice royalty free(I hope) collection of vector art is indicated with proper tags. EDIT: Pricing does seem a bit crazy for what is an auto-generated logo. (In Theory it shouldn't matter who made the logo but psychologically one feels more comfortable paying a live human being $50 instead of a bot).
rafaelvasco 8y ago
It actually works pretty nicely. I put some more uncommon keywords such as 'enlightement' and it generated a happy face with an eye in the forehead. I'm impressed.
mimixco 8y ago
This is, remarkably, not terrible. As others have pointed out, no unicorn is going to use something like this but, as someone who has been hired to design several logos for small projects, this would get the job done for many people.
jatins 8y ago
Generated a logo that I could have actually used, and is contextual. Pretty good!

365 points by andy_adams 8y ago

WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago

Interesting, I like it.

choeger 8y ago

That's surprisingly good

throwaway2016a 8y ago

I was hoping https://mybrandnewlogo.com/how-it-works https://mybrandnewlogo.com/how-it-works was a little more in depth of how it actually works but I suppose if they gave away their secret they wouldn't make any money :) I'm guessing they have a stock library of vector art somewhere. I'd love to know what library / libraries they have used. Edit / added: On a different topic. I routinely by logos from Fiverr for about slightly more than these (typically $80 - $100) and generally speaking the one's from fiver weren't using any stock art.

andy_adams 8y ago
I had a difficult time with the "keywords" portion - I'm assuming they're tying keywords to an icon library. It'd probably be more useful to have a list of words to select from, rather than guessing which ones will be useable by their algorithm.
- monokai_nl 8y ago
  It would indeed be a good idea to have some sort of suggestion UI in this step.
jszymborski 8y ago
The way that a lot of these logo generators work is actually using Noun Project[0], which keeps very good tags for vector icons. [0] https://thenounproject.com/ https://thenounproject.com/
- kingosticks 8y ago
  That's an incredible resource. Thanks so much for posting. I'm wondering how the licenses apply if I modify an icon, or merge two together. Happy to attribute both authors but would that even be allowed? Edit: it is. > Yes, you can modify and build upon the symbol as long as you follow proper attribution requirements. You can use the icon for free as long as you attribute, or pay via a NounPro subscription
- fuzzywalrus 8y ago
  Well played, I searched the terms I used and immediately found the "logos" here.
dawnerd 8y ago
Do you have anyone on fivver you'd recommend in particular? I've had pretty bad luck with designers just reusing logos but charging full rate.
- _eht 8y ago
  It’s pretty easy to do your own due diligence. Just look at reviews and past projects. Contact them and ask for more of their portfolio; it’s an interview after all. If they do a poor job even after that, make sure you review it fairly with detail so that others don’t fall into their trap. You also have control of releasing funds, which can be used last resort as leverage for them to try again if they delivered poorly. It’s a little more work to find the good ones but they are there, and in my experience the extra effort can save you a lot of money.

dawnerd 8y ago

That made some logos Im very interested in (and we happen to be looking for a new logo). Just wondering if the icons are internally created or from another collection? Edit: Looks like they're not unique icons, damn. Edit 2: Since they're using nounproject, I hope they're properly licensing the works and not just assuming they're creative commons so it's free. I'm not seeing any credits given on their site or anything about the logo including the royalty free license.

slig 8y ago
They have a paid API [1]. So I believe they're paid users and paid users don't have to attribute. [1]: https://thenounproject.com/developers/ https://thenounproject.com/developers/
- dawnerd 8y ago
  Their api guides say you can’t resell so that’s why I’m confused I guess.
monokai_nl 8y ago
Everything is properly licensed via a paid API subscription.
taneq 8y ago
Wouldn't it be a bad idea to base your logo on a creative commons work?
- dawnerd 8y ago
  Yeah that immediately turned me off.

blunte 8y ago

This is very well done, both in the results I got from using it and the UI experience while using it.

ghostbox54 8y ago

Feels like a rip off of https://www.launchaco.com/logo https://www.launchaco.com/logo which is free. Someone else asked how they did it, well their code is hosted on github here https://github.com/launchaco/logo_builder https://github.com/launchaco/logo_builder

giarc 8y ago

I don't really see any difference between this and the others such as Logojoy. What I don't like about these services is that some tout AI generated logos etc etc when really they just take some input and generate the same logos over and over. There is no real AI going on.

nkozyra 8y ago
Pedantically, AI really encompasses and represents a broad range of ML approaches, many of which are fundamentally just algorithmic. If there's a rubric for producing these and its intended to simulate the approach a human might take, one could argue it's artificial intelligence.
- hk__2 8y ago
  More pedantically, there’s no intelligence in ML; AI doesn’t exist (yet).
  - Yen 8y ago
    This devolves really quickly into debates on semantics. Which is not a bad thing, but it means it's important to be clear on definitions. I've heard Artificial Intelligence snarkily defined as "whatever computers can't do" - once a human understands the problem well enough to make a computer solve it, solving the problem is no longer "AI". What this says about human intelligence, if-and-when a computer can perform the full set of tasks a human can perform, is left as an exercise to the reader. In any case, right now, a computer can provide answers to certain problems much more quickly and accurately than a human, and can provide more optimal answers. Whether a particular computer does this via hand-tuned heuristics, brute force applied to simple algorithms, or statistics over massive data sets, or some magic "AI" voodoo, it does it.
- taneq 8y ago
  > many of which are fundamentally just algorithmic. Are there non-algorithmic approaches to ML?

martin_drapeau 8y ago

Awesome UX and the results were surprisingly great. Really love this tool.

yobananaboy 8y ago

hahahahahah try putting dirty things in there, the logos are comedy gold

itslennysfault 8y ago
Right there with you... nsfw: https://imgur.com/PoP8dtv https://imgur.com/PoP8dtv
- excalibur 8y ago
  This is fun :D https://imgur.com/a/gXF9Xwb https://imgur.com/a/gXF9Xwb

got2surf 8y ago

This is really cool, some great logo redesign inspiration. A couple of thoughts: 1) If you make the logo designs page shareable (step 2, https://mybrandnewlogo.com/logo-designs https://mybrandnewlogo.com/logo-designs), I would love to get feedback from a few people. If you don't want to store things persistently, even storing the input params (name, color, slogan, etc) in the URL would be great. 2) I love that the name can be read as my "brand new" logo, or as my brand, new logo.

timmonsjg 8y ago
I went to share results with coworkers and came to the same realization you did.
monokai_nl 8y ago
1. If you register and save your logo, you'll get a page that you can share, for example: https://mybrandnewlogo.com/share/2P1qwAO85EtvRNgvkQGn https://mybrandnewlogo.com/share/2P1qwAO85EtvRNgvkQGn You can share a couple of your logo pages on social, and gather feedback from your friends. 2. That's the idea, glad you like it :)
- got2surf 8y ago
  Cool, thanks! That's a good enough value prop for me to register :)

tyingq 8y ago

I do like that the front page examples are all of logos that remain recognizable when you render them in just 2 color black and white. Too many logos out there are aren't really "logos".

monokai_nl 8y ago
When you purchase a logo package, you'll actually get multiple color variants: full color, black and white, white on transparent, black on transparent, etc.

FearNotDaniel 8y ago

What, no kerning?

astrodust 8y ago
Proper keming is an extra 50€

jcoffland 8y ago

I used 99designs a few years back to get my company's logo. It was cheap, fast and good. You get to choose from several designs submitted by real designers and work with them to fine tune it. I am still very happy with the results. This service has pretty generic results, IMO.

huhtenberg 8y ago
99designs = 50% clip art + 50% blatant rips of existing logos + the StackOverflow logo. That is, be sure to check you didn't end up with a stolen logo.
- astrodust 8y ago
  Should be like 99percentchanceofbeingstolen as those sites basically encourage logo theft. There's no other way to make money at those rates.

levesque 8y ago

Seems very nice, but it also appears like they have few stock images per keyword/topic and they would be overused after a relatively short time. Am I not getting something? Are they supposed to take out an image once the logo is sold?

bluedino 8y ago
Similiar to Vistaprint. I can tell who used them when they give me their business card.

davelondon 8y ago

Are there any of these logo design apps that are actually free? (e.g. to get the SVG file?) I just need a quick placeholder logo for a blog so I don't want to spend $$

andy_adams 8y ago
You can try https://logomakr.com/ https://logomakr.com/ - they have an upsell, but you can get the basic version of the logo for free.

YeahSureWhyNot 8y ago

waste of time

Fauntleroy 8y ago

The most amusing thing about this website is that they obviously had an actual designer do some work on it at some point, yet it implies that designers can be easily automated out of the process. All of the "logos" this thing generates are completely thoughtless: it simply searches the Noun project based on your inputs for a vector image, then sets it next to a random typeface. Anyone with a modicum of design experience can tell you that these "logos" that it generates are a complete joke. If you're honestly considering using one of these yourself, just head to the noun project and search for an icon to plop down next to your favorite typeface—you'll probably come up with a better result.

duxup 8y ago
I think most of these are sort of "logos for the masses" type things. They're not replacing a professional designer as much as they're there for folks who don't have a designer / not going to but would like a logo.
- DonaldPShimoda 8y ago
  Yeah, to me this seems great if you're working on an open-source project or are just barely getting off the ground and just need some sort of logo. I can see myself using this for silly projects where I just want to have a placeholder or temporary logo for a made-up name while I think about what I really want it to look like.
  - duxup 8y ago
    Yeah some little side project of mine, want logo, can't make fancy pics... there ya go.
  - hadlock 8y ago
    All of our internal webapps use some sort of logo on their readme.md, generated from sites like these None of our internal webapps produce revenue or are customer facing, but developers like some kind of identity for their pet projects. These sites are perfect for this sort of thing.

aboutruby 8y ago

nyx_ 8y ago

Mine came out pretty good. I'm impressed. https://i.imgur.com/gogGNws.png https://i.imgur.com/gogGNws.png

nineteen999 8y ago

So the output pretty much looks like your average .io domain website then.

casper345 8y ago

I typed in "cocoon" and it gave me typewriters as my logos...Nice website, but deliverable, not great. Silver-lining: There will "always" be work for designers who take their time to understand the depth behind a logo/company and create something unique.

whoisjuan 8y ago

Step 1: Load a bunch free font families Step 2: Load a bunch of icons with alt names. Step 3: Randomize 1 and 2 as well as position and colors. I wish good design was algorithmically that simple, but is not. These are good logos for maybe a placeholder or testing something out, but they will never have the quality of a real well thought design.

dc_gregory 8y ago
Was thinking much the same; we have a product[1] in the same space, but a much larger inventory, all created by hand. Not sure the "AI" space for design is quite good enough for this price point. [1] https://www.brandcrowd.com/maker https://www.brandcrowd.com/maker
- giarc 8y ago
  I actually really like your service! However the pricing isn't obvious on the site.
  - dc_gregory 8y ago
    Thanks! The core team working on this is super smart. I'll pass your feedback on pricing to our product manager.
anonytrary 8y ago
That's true, but if you parameterize enough variables and generate enough combinations, you'll eventually find a result with great design. For a non-designer like myself who might want a neat logo on a software project I'm working on, randomly generating stuff like this and picking the best one is something I'd try before opening up Illustrator or hiring someone. I think the main problem with this service is that the parameters are probably pretty simple and it's gonna mostly output generic patterns.

monokai_nl 8y ago

Author here. Happy to answer any questions.

airstrike 8y ago
Off-topic: Thank you for creating monokai!
- monokai_nl 8y ago
  Hah, glad you enjoy it! Never thought that something I created 13 years ago would still be so widely in use :)

jessaustin 8y ago

These logos are as good as those I've seen produced by "professional" graphic designers. That isn't the ringing endorsement one might imagine it to be.

m0meni 8y ago

Someone could trivially put all sites like this out of business by creating a chrome extension that just extracts the SVGs it shows you from the page and downloads them.

HugoDaniel 8y ago

shameless plug You can also try some custom shapes and patterns with https://gridgenerator.com https://gridgenerator.com :) Here are some examples: https://www.instagram.com/gridgenerator/ https://www.instagram.com/gridgenerator/

biosed 8y ago
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- HugoDaniel 8y ago
  Thankx! fixed :)

codetrotter 8y ago

I think I found a bug. If you put an emoji in the slogan the generated logos all come up empty!

monokai_nl 8y ago
The final logos are created with vector shapes from the font files. There are no fonts that include emojis, so that's why the system couldn't create any logo for you. I should display a better message explaining this, thanks.

weknowbetter 8y ago

So how does trademark work with a logo that is essentially made entirely out of CC artwork? Wouldn't another company be able to legally "steal" your logo in theory?

m19n 8y ago

Input fields on register form cannot be selected on iOS (native browser and Firefox)

azhenley 8y ago

Careful, if the page refreshes then you'll lose all your options! I did like quite a few of them too, even without giving a slogan or any keywords.

monokai_nl 8y ago
Maybe it's good to have an extra confirmation popup after 5 times clicking "make more logos" when the page refreshes, thanks.

DLA 8y ago

My trials yielded tons of company name + some variation of a star combination ... not very creative. The three descriptive words seemed to have little impact on the results whereas a quality designer would leverage the descriptive words to anchor ideas/concepts.

fuckyah 8y ago

love it https://mybrandnewlogo.com/share/Ng5gWmBmKJTzyy1XRz5Y https://mybrandnewlogo.com/share/Ng5gWmBmKJTzyy1XRz5Y

apo 8y ago

Really well done. I especially like that there's a "pricing" tab, although I missed that at first. From the tab: One low-resolution logo file as inspiration for your designer. Some commenters didn't like the service b/c the results look too "generic." I see this as a different kind of service that fills a very particular need: people rarely know what they want in a logo if that's not their area of focus. Being able to flip through some possibilities and make simple changes on the fly makes it a lot easier to figure out what you want.

danhodgins 8y ago

After you get your logo done you might find you have an ongoing need for a bunch of day-to-day, maintenance graphic design. If that sounds like you then check out Design Butler™ --> https://designbutler.co https://designbutler.co. We provide Unlimited Graphic Design (flat rate, all-inclusive) - web, print, social, infographics, presentations and more.

yantrams 8y ago

[Selfplug] If you want to see how similar your logo is compared to stock icons from the noun project database or logos of the top million websites, you can try these services that I built as part of my research into shape similarity. http://compute.vision/nouns/index.html http://compute.vision/nouns/index.html http://compute.vision/brands/index.html http://compute.vision/brands/index.html These aren't the latest iterations of the algorithm but they fare pretty well most of the times. Here are the results for the logo of Mybrandnewlogo: http://compute.vision/nouns/index.html?barnacles=https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/logoloads/OK5G9NBJCOYSDVQV http://compute.vision/nouns/index.html?barnacles=https://s3.... http://compute.vision/brands/logo-results.html?uhash=HTH0LBUJJ4BEYYI7 http://compute.vision/brands/logo-results.html?uhash=HTH0LBU... Edit: Formatting

pavbelshippable 8y ago

Wow, this logo generator is so amazing. Lol, hope logo designers don't get out of the job. But seriously speaking, for small businesses, this is a great tool. I have seen people charging hundreds of dollars just for a logo these days, so this tool is an easy growth hack for startups. Added this to my list of growth hacking tools for startups https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JtTcBeZ0U3arpYthIrvdYRZoYA0ga-devDO2AktuGI/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JtTcBeZ0U3arpYthIrv...

sharninder 8y ago

I don't get the hate this one's getting. I don't think Apple or Google are going to use a site like this for getting their logos made but there are millions of other blogs, social media handles who don't mind a decent looking logo or an idea they can customise further. I think this is an excellent effort and I can already see myself using it.

me45555 8y ago
Agreed!

rawoke083600 8y ago

Ja not bad... I will give the usual props for getting a side project out and launched (That really is the hard part for me at least". It is a bit broken on mobile (at least for me - borked spacing). *Side rant: But I really want a decent-website-redesign service(just concept no css or anything). My current site(https://www.fibretiger.co.za https://www.fibretiger.co.za) looks like a Christmas tree that took psychedelics.. :/ I've always been put off by the high cost of the "design-competitions" like 99Designs cause I could just see them recycling bootstrap themes with better colours:/

tobr 8y ago

This is about as valuable as a “3-Step Code Generator” that asks you for a few words that describe what your code should do, then takes a random code snippet and inserts your words as variable names. A small business may not be able to afford a programmer, but still have a use for decent code. Or, you could use it as inspiration for a programmer you hire later!

yantrams 8y ago

Quite impressed with the way this handled some edge cases I tried out. (Four word company name with the third word having 20 characters, twenty word string etc.) I'm sure a lot of thought went into algorithmizing how to best represent a string of unbroken text in a given space and make it look good at the same time. Edit: Grammar

monokai_nl 8y ago
Thanks. There's lots of math going on to make sure the visual parts are positioned nicely. Not everything always works perfectly, but I think for most cases it's working well.

stanislavb 8y ago

Some nice alternatives: * Logojoy * LogoPony * Logomaster.ai * brandmark.io ref: https://www.saashub.com/my-brand-new-logo-alternatives https://www.saashub.com/my-brand-new-logo-alternatives

anonytrary 8y ago

Before I clicked the link, I expecting this to be pretty useless, but I was pleasantly surprised. I'm sure lots of thought went into logos like Electron's or Angular, but at the end of the day, there just needs to be a catchy symbol people can visualize when they think of your project. That said, I probably wouldn't use these logos for an app or anything that needs a strong brand, but they're perfect for little Github projects. They're kinda generic, which is what I expected, but there was more variation in the generated logos than I expected there to be. Even if the designs are pretty generic, I can see this being pretty useful for non-designers who wanna write a library that has a semblance of an attractive README.

mprev 8y ago

Perhaps our view of the affordability of logo design is coloured by those $250,000 rebranding exercises we hear about from large corporations. In the UK, a freelance designer's hourly is, in my experience, around £50. If you have an idea of what you want, a good designer would be able to give you some options and a full logo pack in a day's work. Sure, that's unaffordable in a lot of circumstances but, if you're designing a logo for a business, it's not gonna be one of your largest expenses.

Kagerjay 8y ago

Looks great especially for generating logo ideas

sireat 8y ago

This worked better than I expected. For a quick project this is better than going to fiverr. I made an ACME logo using mountain as a tag and got a nice mixture of logos with various mountains. So obviously a nice royalty free(I hope) collection of vector art is indicated with proper tags. EDIT: Pricing does seem a bit crazy for what is an auto-generated logo. (In Theory it shouldn't matter who made the logo but psychologically one feels more comfortable paying a live human being $50 instead of a bot).

rafaelvasco 8y ago

It actually works pretty nicely. I put some more uncommon keywords such as 'enlightement' and it generated a happy face with an eye in the forehead. I'm impressed.

mimixco 8y ago

This is, remarkably, not terrible. As others have pointed out, no unicorn is going to use something like this but, as someone who has been hired to design several logos for small projects, this would get the job done for many people.

jatins 8y ago

Generated a logo that I could have actually used, and is contextual. Pretty good!