Which do you like better?

[kingtycoon]

Prepare yourself for many Yellow/Orange

1. This one?


2. This one isn't very image-y


3. Nice and stark, doesn't say much.


4. A little more shadow, a little more depth.


5. Ghost Logo


6. Lots of stuff happening


I hope that like 7 people say something about these and they all prefer the same one - instead of what will happen - which is 2 people with completely opposite opinions.

Tell your friends, I'm trying to make a logo.

Comments

[sholanda.livejournal.com]

I like the first one

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

Very much agree.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Is it just cause of more yellow? Cause I like the buildings in some of the others more.

Or is the texture too much too?

[sholanda.livejournal.com]

It's just strong graphically. Your text is cool but it's too busy to be included w the buildings. So I say make an alternate text only graphic without it being so muddy.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

I like 2 and 3. Does the logo need the name in it? If not, I'd go for #1.

[kromelizard.livejournal.com]

How were you intending to use the logo? Because these are all too detailed and textured to be workable for quite a lot of logo uses.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Well. More like book over and probable chapter separator

[kromelizard.livejournal.com]

For a cover the first one is your best choice because it makes better use of empty space. Also the orange helps it a ton. If I were printing this I'd love to do that image with two spot colors for the yellow and orange, rather than a 4-color process print, to give it a nice and striking screen printed look. Number 6 is also nice, but you need more space up top for the title, or you'll have to set it on a title bar to separate it from the background.

Is the image supposed to be wraparound? Because these are all very horizontal designs for just a front cover (assuming you've got the more traditional portrait proportions for the book).

Also your title design could use some tweaking. It's hard to make multiple fonts look unified, so you've set a big challenge for yourself there, you might consider eliminating one of them and using just two typefaces rather. (I assume you've got aesthetic reasons for the choices, but I mostly associate this kind of type design with deliberately retro soap packaging and the Ringling Bros.) The weighting of the words is off, you've got a heavier font on "The" than on the far more significant "City." Maybe try a really small (almost like superscript style) "The," and a narrower "Unknown" to bring its width closer to that of "Fabulous."