today a logo design tutorial but also a question for you all to think about with
an answer at the very end what makes this logo professional there
going to be various reasons as to why this logo design is seen as professional
but there's something very specific that really makes you a cut above the rest
and the reason will be revealed at the end of this logo design tutorial
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Instagram now what makes today's logo design professional but first let's
design the actual logo with the tutorial locate the polygon tool and then click
once on your artboard and type in six sides we then need to make sure we have
a stroke selected and to retain the shape by 90 degrees
I'm going to use 50s maestro way on today's logo design
if you didn't have to release open a command or control our to do so because
we're going to need to use guides a little later in a logo tutorial take the
scissors tool and click on the two far-left points like so and then remove
the section with the selection tool for the next part of this logo design
tutorial we will need to make sure we have our smart guys activated here you
can see the settings I'm using we need to outline the stroke of our logo design
to turn it into a shape and then when you take the direct selection tool you
can edit the shape like so the magenta smart guides really help you keep
everything aligned and perfect as you can see here
using the pencil make a line as perfectly parallel to the shape like I'm
doing here position it in place and then bring down guides like so
I'm deleting the line as I want to make sure the end of it is attached to the
top left Anchor Point perfectly
duplicate the line once more and then join them together with the pencil and
flick the shape every two a film
again using the autopsy key duplicate this shape and we show it's aligned
perfectly using the magenta smart guides
now select everything and open the path finder window we need to join the shape
together for our logo design symbol
with illustrator cc we can use the direct selection tool to run off the
edges like so if you don't have CC then go to effects and round corners
so what this logo professional there are many reasons as to why this
logo can be deemed professional but in specific I want you all to see how the
symbol the logo interacts with the logo type or the typeface one fact that makes
a logo professional is how well the symbol is married together with the logo
type for the eagle-eyed people out there you may have noticed I have edited the
eye and the you to have a cut out slant in the top right corner if I take the
symbol here you will see that this slant fixed perfectly with the hexagonal shape
this is subtle but trust me small things likely a subconsciously tie a logo
design together the other factor that helps tie the symbol on the logo type
together is a fact that the symbol is the same thickness as the font this is
no mistake I've done this on purpose so it ties everything together visually and
making it more appealing so that is one major reason why this logo design can be
considered professional finally here's the standard typeface that I'll use for
this logo type so you can see how I've edited it to fit perfectly with the logo
more visually so I hope you enjoyed this logo design tutorial and you also agree
with what makes this local professional let me know in the comment section below
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