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You don't need a logo, you need a type face. This is the best way to find one.
http://logoswipe.com/
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Hey guys, this was a side project myself and @wernah whipped up a while ago. While it isn't quite finished in terms of the basic functionality that we were hoping for, it's certainly almost there.
I appreciate the feedback. Couple of things that are most definitely need to be added.
- Hints/clickable buttons on either side of the logo that let the user know they can click either way for new logos. - Preloading a few logos so you don't need to wait for them. - Bigger array of fonts.
ooh, best not hide those hints/buttons, I totally missed them without reading your comment here.
though, having the fonts slide show through automatically might be nice, and fonts chosen listed in a nice way underneath.
Chrome 17 OSX10.6.18 - sometimes a new font loads on one click, sometimes on two or three+ clicks. This may be due to a slow internet connection - maybe the first click registers then takes several moments to load the next font? Also there's no visual feedback that clicking on a page area will go forward/back. Sometimes a pointer cursor appears, sometimes it doesn't.
Poor UI design. I'll stick with Google web fonts or the multitude of commercial font sites.
A singled out logo looks pretty good in some cases, but I'm afraid scrolling through multiple entries beats paging for many users. A segmented control in the top-right corner that lets you toggle between the two modes might be the solution. You can be generous with the whitespace in the scroll view and it will look just as good.
Regarding current desktop usability: Please capture scrolling and interpret it as swiping. I have to click twice to 'swipe' to the next one. I don't want to click unless I'm leaving the page or POSTing something.
Also, I suppose you might like to earn some money with this. I found an interesting typeface but wasn't even able to Google it at first, because the spelling was wrongfully auto-corrected. A button with an affiliate link to buy (or simply download if the typeface is free) is what would make this app really useful.
Thanks for sharing this, I'll be keeping an eye on you. Good luck!
Thanks a heap for the feedback. The click twice issue is really quite strange and annoying, needs to be fixed.
I've got the functionality for affiliate links in there, but not all fonts are necessarily affiliatable. I'll probably link to the ones that aren't anyway.
Thanks for the comments.
i don't understand how this is more efficient than entering your logo text into the google font directory [1], or dafont [2], and just scrolling through all the fonts.. also, why are there no options?
[1] http://www.google.com/webfonts
[2] http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=501&text=Hacker+News...
This was kind of the point of the project. I thought that looking at each font in isolation rather than scrolling was a better way of handling it. Also not worrying about tweaking any options means you can ideally get in and get out of the site quicker. Bit of an opinionated look on it I suppose, but interesting to see how people react to it.
I did this with my logo a while back, going through bunches of fonts... that being said the font selection here is kinda sparse...
Second might be a good one to have a column view of the word(s) in the different faces where you could do a side-by-side comparison and select candidates to look at in larger detail.
The kerning needs work. Having a typeface is not the same as having a properly set type.
Amen to this. A skilled designer adds a lot of value by setting the type weight and kerning properly, choosing a decent color palette, giving you the right options for light / dark backgrounds and so on.
As important is a basic style guide/manual for the rest of your stuff (use these styles for h1, h2, h3, bullets like so etc).
As a formerly design-blind hacker, I've come to appreciate that consistency in visual design is significantly under-valued.
Absolutely. The idea was that it's a great starting place for someone to look at a heap of fonts and get a feel for what they like. It certainly was not meant as the end point for the logo. I wonder if there's some sort of smart kerning algo we could bang on each logo.
This is awesome.
I'd like it if you could include a "press enter" in the "type your logo name here", because I sat there for 10 seconds not knowing what to do!
My Chrome tab just crashes. I have no idea what's supposed to happen.
Thanks for the feedback. Will get onto that.
Does it only give you one logo? Or can you hit arrow keys to cycle through different versions without having to submit the textbox again?
Click on the left or right sides inside the section holding the text. Took me awhile to figure it out too.
Larger bodies of text are clipped, depending on the face used.
Clickable: