Simple lines and shapes for your logo design

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Lines also convey all sorts of feelings and emotions. So be aware of how you create your lines. Sharp edges indicate tension, crispness, hardness, formality and even technology. Onrepparttar other hand, if you want to convey a softer, flowing and more casual and personal design, use soft edges and curves.

And for more variations, you could also utilize color to further changerepparttar 132213 appearance of your lines.

Using shapes… Using shapes in your logo design can convey certain meanings: a circle is protective or infinite;repparttar 132214 square represents stability, equality and honesty; whilerepparttar 132215 triangle evokes tension, conflict, or action.

Despite its different meanings, shapes are very effective in logo designs because of their simplicity and flexibility. You could create a wide range of illustrations and images by using allrepparttar 132216 shapes available, or by combining them to form interesting patterns. You could even create a shape out of grouping another shape, e.g. a group of circles to form a triangle.

Another great idea is using abstract designs by alternating direction or color of your shapes, or disrupting a pattern with another shape. Or even by creating a shape that is distorted and out of alignment. These are wonderful ideas you can pursue for your logo design.

Whatever your strategy or your specification, make use of your creativity to utilizerepparttar 132217 circles, triangles, squares and rectangles for your logo design. Just always remember to be simple with your shapes and lines. Some ofrepparttar 132218 logo designs that work best are those that exude simplicity at its best.

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Granny's Mettle is a 30-something, professional web content writer. She has created various web content on a diverse range of topics, which includes digital printing topics, medical news, as well as legal issues. Her articles are composed of reviews, suggestions, tips and more for the printing and designing industry.


The Psychology of Color in Web Design

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The key aspect to contemplate to achieve accessibility, aside from impaired vision, is by being aware that your design might be manipulated by assistive technology. Screen readers or magnifiers are examples of this. They are softwarerepparttar physically disabled employ to enhance their experience of user interfaces. Some Web users can only read a certain combination such as yellow text on a black background, which allows no room for greyscale.

In order to have good legibility for users with certain visual difficulties and impairments, strong contrast can be a main ingredient in your design. Testrepparttar 132211 effectivity of this by manipulating screenshots of your design in a program like Adobe Photoshop. Try convertingrepparttar 132212 image to greyscale then makerepparttar 132213 screenshot monochrome to see how it might be viewed usingrepparttar 132214 most extreme visual manipulation -- do this by increasingrepparttar 132215 contrast level to +100. This is a particularly useful approximation of difficulties colour blind users may experience in discerning one colour or shade from another.

You can start adjusting your color application now and keep in mind that your designs will not be considered impressive if few people could discern them. -30-

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Lala C. Ballatan is a 26 year-old Communication Arts graduate. Book reading has always been her greatest passion -- mysteries, horrors, psycho-thrillers, historical documentaries and classics. Her writing prowess began as early as she was 10 years old in girlish diaries. With writing, she felt freedom – to express her viewpoints and assert it, to bring out all concerns -- imagined and observed, to bear witness.


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