How to Make a Simple Text-Only Logo with InDesign

How to Make a Simple Text-Only Logo with InDesign (Plus Font Tips)

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This is part 4 of my series “How to Create a Design Style.” You can find the other posts in the series at these links:

Making your own logo does not have to be an intimidating prospect. In fact, an easy and inexpensive way for non-designers to create their own is to make a simple text-only logo.

Text-only logos are great because they’re easy to create, they look professional, and they make it really easy to follow the rules of good logo design. Plus If you think about it, some of the biggest and most well known brands use a text-only logo. Think Sony, FedEx, The New York Times, Google, and many more. Same thing with some popular bloggers like Amy Porterfield and Melyssa Griffin.

In this video, I’ll show you how I made my text-only logo in InDesign, plus how to export your logo from InDesign into different file formats that you can use for different things like web pages, social media graphics, presentations or print projects. And I’ve got some tips for choosing a good logo font, some suggestions for free fonts, plus more to help you get started:

Tips for choosing a good logo font:

Free logo font suggestions:

Tips for using color in your logo:

File types and terms mentioned in the video:

In the video I showed how you can export your logo from InDesign into these file types, and also discussed “vector graphics.” These are some file types that can get you started if all you have is InDesign, and I’ve included the terms here again for reference:

PDF – These can be placed in printable downloads, blog graphics, web pages or presentations, and can also be used in projects that will be professionally printed. In the video, the PDF logo graphic I made was a “vector” graphic because my text artwork in the file I used to make the PDF was vector-based (see below for an explanation of vector graphics).

JPEG – These files can be used on websites, social media graphics, slide presentations, e-books, or anything that will be viewed online. They are resolution-based so they can only be enlarged to a certain size before they start to become pixelated. It’s also best not to use a JPEG version of your logo for anything that will be printed because JPEG logos tend to print “fuzzy.”

PNG – These files have a transparent background and can be placed on web pages, social media graphics, slide presentations, e-books, or other screen-based projects. These are great for if the design has some color in the background, where you need your logo to not have a white box around it like with a JPEG. These are also resolution-based, and can only be enlarged so much. It’s best not to use these logo files on printed projects as well.

Vector Graphic – These are graphics that have clean and crisp lines, and can be enlarged to any size without losing quality. You will want to use a vector graphic of your logo for print projects like business cards or brochures, because these types of logos look clean on the final printed piece. If you’re using InDesign for your social media graphics or web graphics, you can go ahead and use vector versions of your logo on these as well because it will be converted to the right format along with the entire graphic when you export.

In Conclusion

Creating a professional logo does not have to be hard or complicated. A text-only logo is definitely a great way to get started, and later on you can always add to it or make another one if you decide you’d like something that’s a little more creative. There are lots of great resources out there when you’re ready.

Any questions about text-only logos? I’d love to hear them in the comments!

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InDesign Basics for Bloggers: Get Started Creating with InDesign

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A 5-lesson video course designed to help you learn the basics you need to get started creating with InDesign.

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It’s easier than you think to make graphics for your blog with InDesign.

One of the things that not a lot of people realize is that you really only need to learn some basics to use InDesign effectively. This 5-lesson mini course is designed to take you through the basics of the program to help you get a good foundation for creating many different projects for your blog.

With the tools in this course, you’ll be able to create projects like:

In this course, you’ll get familiar with the program, learn some simple tools, palettes and shortcuts, and there will be a project walkthrough in the last video to show you how to put some of those tools and features to use.

Here is a list of lessons that are included:

Lesson 1 – Getting Familiar with the Work Area

Opening up InDesign for the first time can be overwhelming, but I promise it’s not nearly as scary as it looks once you break it down into its basics sections. We’ll walk through the 5 basic sections in this video.

Lesson 2 – Basic Tools and Palettes

I’ll take you through the handful of tools and palettes you need to know to be able to work with lots of different projects.

Lesson 3 – The Control Palette and Pasteboard

In this video I’ll show you two of the most useful InDesign features that can really help you as you work on projects.

Lesson 4 – Basic Functions and Shortcuts

InDesign is loved for its time-savers, and in this video I’ll go through a few of them that can help you really speed things along.

Lesson 5 – Creating Your First Project

We’ll walk through a project and show you some of these tools and features we’ve learned in action.

InDesign does not have to be intimidating.

By just learning some basics, you can start using this pro software to create professional looking projects for your blog.

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In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a worksheet with InDesign.

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I’ll show you how in this video.

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One of the great things about InDesign is being able to save and duplicate your work.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a template from a blog post graphic that’s already been created, and then use that template to quickly make a new graphic.

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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to open and edit your image in Photoshop straight from InDesign.

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