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		<title>Make Your Signature Cool with a Logo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jayden Hughes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When you communicate via email, your email signature is usually the final point of communication your reader has and it presents an avenue for more subtle, yet effective branding and marketing. By including your logo in the signature, you will be increasing the reach and exposure of your brand, thus adding more to your marketing &#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you communicate via email, your email signature is usually the final point of communication your reader has and it presents an avenue for more subtle, yet effective branding and marketing. By including your logo in the signature, you will be increasing the reach and exposure of your brand, thus adding more to your marketing efforts.</p>
<p>A good logo as your signature should be simple, professional and informative. You can effortlessly implement this on your signature without making it look dull and boring. Presented below are some of the ways to use to make your email signature cool with a logo.</p>
<h3><strong>Don’t include too much information </strong></h3>
<p>One of the most common mistakes people make with their email signature is to thing that they are mini autobiography. They end up jamming them with lots of unnecessary information and links which ultimately make them look dull and boring. When you create your signature with a logo, there is no need to include too much information.</p>
<p>The essence of the logo is to market your brand, and if people can take note of it, they will definitely head over to your website where they will find the rest of the information you are tempted to include in the sign. Therefore, try and keep the signature clean and to the point by not cramming it with the logo in addition with lots of other information.</p>
<h3><strong>Consider the color of your logo</strong></h3>
<p>As noted earlier, the signature will be the last thing the reader will see after reading the email. When you use a logo as the signature, it is important to consider the dominant color of your design. There are instances when the color may appear a little dull when used in the signature and in such cases, it is advisable that you tweak the colors and probably use some bright pallets to attract the reader’s attention to the logo. Obviously, when the color of the logo doesn’t contrast that of the email, then decipherability will be hampered and the logo will not be as effective as it would have been.</p>
<h3><strong>Use just the right size</strong></h3>
<p>For proper organization and better display of the logo on the signature, the size ought to be just the right one. A large logo size will not just be boring and annoying to the reader, but it may also affect the rendition of your email and make the structure and the organization disjointed. Additionally, if the signature takes more space than the actual content of the email, you may appear as imposing your brand to the recipients and it may make them change your perception about you.</p>
<h3><strong>Use smaller font pallets</strong></h3>
<p>Too many fonts are not a disaster for your logo alone, but also for your signature. Ideally, it is advisable not to use a lot of fonts in your logo and if this is the case, you will have to do some tweaking when using the logo in your email signature. This is a nice way to keep the logo simple and clear as the name and thus making it more effective in your branding efforts.</p>
<h3><strong>Let the logo be in the right format for small screens as well</strong></h3>
<p>It goes without saying that the logo should be able to render properly in computer screens before you use in the signature. Some businesses not fond of using communications may just pick any logo format and use it as the signature. You need to ensure that the logo is in a format which can be rendered across multiple devices, and especially on small screens, without its quality being affected. This is very important given that the number of people accessing emails via mobile device keeps on increasing and if the image in the signature can’ be displayed well on mobile devices, it may be a blow to your marketing and branding efforts.</p>
<h3><strong>Full width email signs</strong></h3>
<p>For most people using emails in their signatures, they follow the conventional format of position the signature at the bottom left section at the end of the email. Whereas this is the position which has been in use since time immemorial, sometimes a little creativity is needed to stand out from the crowd. For instance, you can modify the logo size to have an extended width to make it larger and more conspicuous.</p>
<p>In this way, it will draw in a lot of attention from the reader, besides making the email appear aesthetically appealing. However, you should consider this approach only if the logo can adopt a landscape layout without compromising its quality and overall visual appeal.</p>
<p>For better results with the logo as the email signature, there are other common mistakes that people fall for when designing their email signatures. For instance, there is no need for you to put all your phone numbers and email addresses on the signature. Watch out for such mistakes and you will never get it wrong with your email signatures.</p>
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		<title>The Difference between Vector and Raster</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jayden Hughes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>For many people, the difference between Vector and Raster is as obscure as the sunset on a stormy evening. However, the difference between the two is relatively simple and easy for anyone to understand. To begin with, it is important to understand that graphic files can take different sizes, shapes and formats. If you have &#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For many people, the difference between Vector and Raster is as obscure as the sunset on a stormy evening. However, the difference between the two is relatively simple and easy for anyone to understand. To begin with, it is important to understand that graphic files can take different sizes, shapes and formats. If you have been observant enough, you may have noticed that there are certain logos which appear clear and crisp while there are others that appear blurry and pixilated. The differences in appearance are due to the fact that one was saved as a vector image and the other saved as a Raster image. So how exactly do you tell between the two?</p>
<h3><strong>Raster Graphics</strong></h3>
<p>Raster is the commonly used type of graphics. They comprise of tiny continuous of colored boxes known as dots or pixels. When creating images or graphics for print, Raster graphics are usually measured in dots per inch (dpi), but when the images are meant for use in the web then they are measured in pixel per inch (ppi). These measurements allow the designers to measure the amount of color information contained in a specific image. The most popular file formats for Raster graphics include jpg, png, tiff, gif, psd and bmp. In the creation of Raster graphics, there are lots of tools which can be used, with Adobe Photoshop being the preferred one by the majority.</p>
<h3><strong><em>Pros and cons of Raster images</em></strong></h3>
<p>One of the greatest advantages of Raster graphics is that they offer greater color detail because they are pixel based. With this, Raster images have a finite number of pixels. Therefore, should you attempt to enlarge the graphic; the computer will try to fill in the gaps of the missing pixels with the colors which it thinks matches the spaces. This interpolation of data is what will make the images appear blurry or pixilated, since the computer cannot guess correctly the exactly colors which ought to be in those spaces.</p>
<p>The second advantage of using Raster is the precise editing that they allow the editors to have. When working with Raster graphics, designers have more precise editing control over the details and the color information. It will interest you to know that all the individual pixels with the color information in Raster images can be edited one by one, therefore, if you are a perfectionist designer, then Raster images gives you the highest levels of customization possible. The editing possibilities are simply endless.</p>
<p>On the other hand, there are certain characteristic of Raster images that are not admirable at all. The first con of these graphics is that they are blurry or get pixilated when enlarged. This is because the images are made of a finite number of pixels and when they are enlarged, the computer tries to guess the right color that should be in the additional gaps. The image will thus appear blurry because the computer has no way of telling the right color which should be filled in the gaps.</p>
<p>The second con for Raster graphics lies on their size. They are large in nature and might sometimes compromise the processing powers of the computers, even for faster machines.</p>
<h3><strong>Vector Graphics</strong></h3>
<p>Unlike Raster graphics which are comprised of individual pixels, vector graphics uses math to draw shapes in form of dots, curves and lines and they are infinitely scalable. The graphics uses the original math equation to create consistent shapes irrespective of whether they are being scaled up or down. This is why vector graphics are preferred for logos and large scale printing. For creating graphics meant for the web, you are free to use vector or Raster graphics since it is possible to export vector images to popular Raster formats such as png, jpg, etc.</p>
<h3><strong><em>Pros and cons of vector graphics</em></strong></h3>
<p>As indicated earlier, one of the pros of vector graphics is that they can be scaled infinitely without them compromising the image quality in any way. With them, you don’t have to worry about missing pixels, since the original mathematic equation will be applied to the shape consistently at all times.</p>
<p>Secondly, vector images are relatively smaller thus easy to work with and will not affect the processing power of computers as is the case with large Raster files. And finally, unlike their Raster based counterparts, vector graphics are never flattened and this simply implies that the original shapes exist in different layers, giving you the power to modify each element individually.</p>
<p>One of the limitations of vectors is their unsuitability for complex images that might require exact coloring. This is owing to the mathematical nature of how data is remembered by vectors. Though it may be possible to create basic color gradients with vectors, it will not be possible to match the color details available in Raster images, where you can edit each individual pixel.</p>
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		<title>Is User Experience an Essential Part of Web Design?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jayden Hughes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2016 16:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>There are many things that determine the success of a website. It is no longer sufficient to have a beautiful site, with a properly designed layout and navigation and hope that it will open for you the floodgates of online traffic to grow your online business. Whereas aesthetics, performance and marketing are critical to the &#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many things that determine the success of a website. It is no longer sufficient to have a beautiful site, with a properly designed layout and navigation and hope that it will open for you the floodgates of online traffic to grow your online business. Whereas aesthetics, performance and marketing are critical to the ultimate success of any website, the user experience is another great factor that can never be ignored if you want to have a successful website. Remember, it is humans that interact with the websites on the internet and it is imperative that they find it easy and intuitive to use when checking out your content.</p>
<p>User experience refers to how a user feels when going through your website and the kind of responses they might have, whether physical, emotional or intellectual. Out of their interaction with the website and the kind of experience they get, they will decide whether or not take the intended action.</p>
<p>The intended action is always the main objective of setting up the website, and this could be either to sell a product, collect email addresses or share content. Every website, therefore, should be designed with the potential users in mind, and it should anticipate the kind of interaction expected from the user and ensure that the design has been aligned to meet the user’s expectations.</p>
<p><strong>User experience and search engine optimization</strong></p>
<p>In the recent years, Google, the major search engine today, updated its algorithm to factor in the user experience when determining the ranks of websites. Google always has always stressed to developers and online marketers on the need for quality content, which in turn will lead to great user experience. When users land on your website, they are hoping to find something which they were looking for on the internet.</p>
<p>If they fail to find it, they will quickly navigate away from your website leading to high bounce back rates. If Google notices this in your websites, it will interpret that your site has an awful user experience, and this is why people are moving away the moment they get there. Your site will then be given lower rankings because it is not offering a good experience for the users by providing quality content.</p>
<p>With the lower rankings, you miss an awesome opportunity to get loads of free and targeted traffic to your website. Therefore, user content should always one of your top concerns when making websites to enhance your search engine optimization efforts.</p>
<p><strong>Mobile websites and user experience</strong></p>
<p>The number of people accessing the internet with mobile devices has outgrown the number of people using desktop devices to access the internet. It implies that if your website isn’t accessible to these kinds of users, then you will be limiting the viewership of your website to the desktop users alone. In this manner, you will be using a great opportunity to take a share of the humongous mobile traffic for the growth of your website and online business.</p>
<p>It is due to user experience that you will be compelled to make a mobile friendly site take of mobile users as well. If user attempt to access your website via the mobile devices but they are not able to, they will simply give up and search for a similar website that will be displayed on their mobile devices. This is another reason for you take user experience seriously in web design.</p>
<p><strong>User experience and lead nurturing</strong></p>
<p>One of the goals of a website is to collect leads for future email marketing. Through user experience, marketers are able to personalize the lead capture process for effective results. It made the potential leads feel more important and appreciated thus breaking any barriers they might have had before. The eventual results of this won’t be just increased lead capture but also increased conversions since the potential customers will feel less skeptic about taking the desired action.</p>
<p><strong>Ease of use of the website by the users</strong></p>
<p>Website usability is important for the success of any online venture. Usability encompasses various items that still points back to user experience. A good website should be easily found on the internet, and it should also have useful, desirable, accessible, credible, and valuable information. These are the core determinants of good user experience. When a website has all of these, it will give users easy time in navigating the content, the download speeds will also be high, meaning that users won’t have to wait for a long time and it will also be easy for the users to search and find the various content they are looking for. Eventually, users will enjoy using the website each and every time thus helping in building the brand authority of the website.</p>
<p>User experience is a very extensive subject due to its importance to the success of websites online. The crucial thing is to take time and investigate thoroughly on the user experience before setting out to develop a website. It will be a waste of time to design a website that users won’t enjoy using.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2016 16:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is an awesome blogging platform with exponential capabilities as a content management system. Ever since its launch, it has grown to be one of the most favorite CMS tools and it is currently powering over 23% of the websites on the internet. The fact that it is intuitive and easy to use makes it &#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is an awesome blogging platform with exponential capabilities as a content management system. Ever since its launch, it has grown to be one of the most favorite CMS tools and it is currently powering over 23% of the websites on the internet.</p>
<p>The fact that it is intuitive and easy to use makes it favorable for even persons who have no knowledge of web design or coding. This, together with the fact that it is friendly to the search engines usually makes it the first choice platform for most people just getting into the world of web design.</p>
<p>You should, however, note that the ease of use of the platform is not a guarantee that every website making process will be smooth. It is upon the developer to adhere to strict web design practices and guidelines to ensure that they make the websites in the right way.</p>
<p>Related to this also, there are certain common mistakes that WordPress web designers are fond of making, and these ends up jeopardizing the quality of their works. Watching out for these mistakes and avoiding them makes the design process easier and leads to good stable WordPress websites. Use these tips to avoid the common WordPress mistakes to become more proficient in WordPress website design-:</p>
<p><strong>Use a reliable web hosting company</strong></p>
<p>Unless you are using the free hosting services provided by WordPress, you are likely to self-host your WordPress website. One of the common WordPress mistakes that people do is choosing the wrong host for their websites. The hosting company is of crucial importance to the operation of your website since they will determine the uptime of your site in the Internet.</p>
<p>You should always use reliable web hosting companies with little or no downtimes so that you are guaranteed that your website will be live for most of the times. The last thing you want is for your e-commerce website to go down when you are accepting orders because the sites are not hosted by a reliable hosting company.</p>
<p><strong>Use updated themes and plugins</strong></p>
<p>Themes and plugin help in extending the functionality of the core WordPress engine. They give you the ability to do more than what the base code of WordPress would have done. However, it is regrettable to note that the use of WordPress themes and plugins is a very common WordPress mistake being committed by even some of the experienced designers.</p>
<p>While using the themes, it is imperative that you use the most recent versions. Using outdated versions will hinder you from reaping the maximum potential and most importantly, outdated themes and plugins can provide backdoors for hackers and other malicious people who might want to hurt your website.</p>
<p><strong>Make the website mobile friendly</strong></p>
<p>Ever since the surge in growth of mobile traffic, it is important for every website to be mobile friendly. A mobile friendly website simply refers to a website that can render properly in mobile devices such as Smartphone and tablets. The main reason for making your WordPress website mobile friendly is to take advantage of the immense mobile traffic for the growth of your website.</p>
<p>If the site can’t be accessed via the mobile devices, it implies that you will miss out on a huge chunk of the mobile traffic, and this will curtail the growth of your website. Be careful not to fall a victim of this common WordPress mistake.</p>
<p><strong>Change the permalinks</strong></p>
<p>One of the greatest advantages that WordPress have over the other CMS in the industry is its custom link structure. WordPress gives you the ability to do away with the default link structure to a more customizable one which is not only easily recognizable to human but also loved by the search engines. Changing the link structure is a breeze, but it is one of the common WordPress mistakes made by many people. Always be sure to change link structures for better search engine rankings which will ultimately lead to more traffic.</p>
<p><strong>Back up your site regularly</strong></p>
<p>With all the hackers on the Internet and the security loops available in WordPress, every site is vulnerable to getting hacked. To stay safe, you need to make it a habit of backing up your website on a regular basis. This is the only way to save time and valuable resources should you wake up one morning and find that someone has hacked your website. You can use backup features provided by your hosting company.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can make use of backup plugins which will give you the ability to back automatically up your website on a regular basis. This is a common WordPress mistake that saves you a lot of time and pain when your site is hacked</p>
<p><strong>Remove the default tagline</strong></p>
<p>It is always disgusting to see a live website still showing the default WordPress tagline of “Just Another WordPress Site.” Avoid this common WordPress mistake by replacing it with your tagline.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Examples of Animated Logos in the Entertainment World Animated logos are fairly popular method for producing online logos, video logos and even logos for digital signboards. An animated logo goes far beyond the traditional print logo because it takes an initial logo design and turns it into a motion image. The first animated logos came &#8230;</p>
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<p>Animated logos are fairly popular method for producing online logos, video logos and even logos for digital signboards. An animated logo goes far beyond the traditional print logo because it takes an initial logo design and turns it into a motion image. The first animated logos came from animated films and from production credits. Although an animated logo may have just a few frames in it, the motion that&#8217;s produced can work to emphasize the point that the logo has as well as catch the eye. Only a few companies really have animated logos currently but with the use of Gif images, flash files and the medium of web video more and more companies are utilizing animated logos as part of their marketing technique.</p>
<p>While only a few companies have animated logos as their main logo there are many companies are being forced to follow suit when they produce their own marketing material online especially when it comes to delving into video today. With their growing popularity more and more designers are turning to gif creators and video editing software in order to create the simple animations. Some of the most iconic animated logos currently are the following.</p>
<h2><strong>Dreamworks:</strong></h2>
<p>The DreamWorks animated logo includes an image of a night sky with the moon prominently displayed in the middle of the screen. This logo often appears before a feature-length film, trailer or during a variety of marketing material for the studio. Dreamworks highlights the moon and night sky by having a young boy perched in the moon casting a fly fishing rod into a puddle that is revealed as the camera pans downward. Dreamworks definitely has one of the most complicated animated logos available right now but the product hasn&#8217;t changed since 2010 and shows no signs of changing anytime soon. Dreamworks created an iconic logo with beautiful music to go alongside it. While not every company will have access to these types of studios or budget to create understanding logo, this is a good base mark for what is actually possible with animated logos today.</p>
<h2><strong>Walt Disney:</strong></h2>
<p>The Walt Disney castle logo has been the same for some time but recently received a facelift in the year 2011. The Walt Disney castle animation logo has been around since the early days of the animation studio. Animators at Disney are perhaps the best in the world and this could be part of the reason why they have created such a timeless image with their castle logo. Disney animators superimposed spellbinding pixie dust in a perfect arc over Cinderella&#8217;s Castle in the early animations. Bn the most current rendition of the Walt Disney animated logo the original hand drawn images have been replaced with computer CGI. While the base graphics and animation remain the same that technology has definitely changed and Walt Disney Animated studios built up an animation intro that&#8217;s highly shareable and technologically advanced by todays computer generated image standards. The Walt Disney animated logo is often shown before their feature-length films, trailers and in some cases even on the Disney website before certain materials.</p>
<h2><strong>BBC Newsbeat:</strong></h2>
<p>Other brands are following suit with their own web material as well. Just because you don&#8217;t have your own animation studio or a ton of video content, that doesn&#8217;t mean that you can&#8217;t use an animated logo. BBC newsbeat is one of the industry leaders utilizing animated board marks and .gif files to animate their logo in the top frame of the page. This adds a unique and eye-catching look for their logo which is relatively simple with black and white. The animated technology adds real flair to this logo which is based in simplicity. The best part about .gif files today is that they are becoming more shareable than ever before. Newsbeat can now share these images across social media platforms with confidence that they will display the same and the wordmark displays in most browsers at the top of the BBC newsbeat main page. Using this type of simple yet subtle logo with an animation could be a striking new way to utilize animated logos for the future of design.</p>
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<h2><strong>Betaworks:</strong></h2>
<p>The other fantastic aspect of an animated logo is that the logo to appear out of thin air. This is exactly what Betaworks was able to do with their animated banner ad/top bar logo. This simple red and white design traces out the logo quickly and has the image quickly appear and disappear looking like it&#8217;s drawing and erasing itself. Betaworks created an extremely modern and unique take on the animated logo also utilizing the .gif format for mass sharability.</p>
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<p>Animated logos may well be the future for design and as more and more designers start to include them in promotional materials and on their websites, the demand for these types of logos may be growing in the near future.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>6 Popular Apps with Great Logo Designs High quality apps with a poor logo is likely to fail to reach its full potential because app icon is one of those elements that make users decide whether or not to download a given app. Since logos are used to communicate with the target audience, if an &#8230;</p>
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<p>High quality apps with a poor logo is likely to fail to reach its full potential because app icon is one of those elements that make users decide whether or not to download a given app. Since logos are used to communicate with the target audience, if an app logo fails to convince the potential user that the app contained therein is of good value, then the user may just rubbish it aside and never install it on their devices. This is why app logo design is such a serious matter for the final success of any type of app.</p>
<p>There is a plethora of mobile phone apps with great icon designs currently in use. Presented here, however, are the top app logos for the iOS devices. The fact that these apps have the best app logo designs is no wonder given that they also rank as some of the top mobile apps for iOS devices. They include the following-:</p>
<h2><strong>Pudding.to<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="4391" data-permalink="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/logo-design/logo-design-news/6-popular-apps-great-logo-designs/attachment/pudding-to/" data-orig-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pudding.to_.jpg" data-orig-size="180,180" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image- title=""  data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pudding.to_.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pudding.to_.jpg" class="alignleft wp-image-4391" src="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pudding.to_.jpg" alt="apps" width="91" height="91" srcset="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pudding.to_.jpg 180w, http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pudding.to_-80x80.jpg 80w" sizes="(max-width: 91px) 100vw, 91px" /><br />
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<p>This is a photo sharing application with one of the sweetest app logos in Apple Store. Gone are the days when the very basic and traditional cameras were used in photography but the logo of this icon does a good job taking you back in time by featuring a grey traditional camera. Despite this, it still manages to look fresh, new and very welcoming.</p>
<h2><strong>Instagram<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="4388" data-permalink="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/logo-design/logo-design-news/6-popular-apps-great-logo-designs/attachment/instagram-logo/" data-orig-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/instagram-logo.png" data-orig-size="200,200" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="apps" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/instagram-logo.png" data-large-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/instagram-logo.png" class="alignleft wp-image-4388" src="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/instagram-logo.png" alt="apps" width="102" height="102" srcset="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/instagram-logo.png 200w, http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/instagram-logo-80x80.png 80w" sizes="(max-width: 102px) 100vw, 102px" /><br />
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<p>It is no doubt that Instagram is one of the biggest social media websites at the moment, with millions of active users. Being that the predominant activity that takes place in this social site is photo sharing, there are hundreds of mobile applications dedicated to sharing photos and images in Instagram. But for an app to stand out amongst the hundreds, it must provide real value to the users.<br />
This doesn’t refer to the functionalities alone, but also it must be beautifully designed, complete with an awesome logo. This is exactly what you get with the InstaGenius App. Its app logo design brings together a vintage camera and modern printing technology to give it an Apple-eque twist with a great sense of personality. It’s personally one of my favorite app logo designs.</p>
<h2><strong>Well<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="4392" data-permalink="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/logo-design/logo-design-news/6-popular-apps-great-logo-designs/attachment/03icon/" data-orig-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/03icon.jpg" data-orig-size="535,450" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="apps" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/03icon-300x252.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/03icon.jpg" class="alignleft wp-image-4392" src="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/03icon.jpg" alt="apps" width="129" height="111" /><br />
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<p>With the Well App, you get powers to manipulate your social lists in various ways using the iPhone. The app logo design for this application features an image of the traditional wells reminiscent of the Roman Empire. It comes with awesome shades of green and blue to create very powerful visual effects. Looking at it for the first time will remind you that there is a font wisdom waiting to be tapped out there so that you can share it with your lists in the social media. It can’t also be disputed that this is one of the app logo designs out there.</p>
<h2 style="padding-left: 150px;"><strong>Wunderlist<br />
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<p>You may have heard of Wunderlist if you are keen on task management apps. It is a free app that helps you in personal organization so that you can manage your tasks, prioritizing them from the most important to the least important ones. But with the capabilities aside, its logo is simply magnificent and it easily finds its way to our list of the top app logo designs. The logo features a 20<sup>th</sup> century nationalist and communist image, which is a good thing if you want your working life to be more organized and regimented.</p>
<h2><strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="4397" data-permalink="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/logo-design/logo-design-news/6-popular-apps-great-logo-designs/attachment/05icon/" data-orig-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/05icon.jpg" data-orig-size="535,455" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="apps" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/05icon-300x255.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/05icon.jpg" class="alignleft wp-image-4397" src="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/05icon.jpg" alt="apps" width="118" height="100" srcset="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/05icon.jpg 535w, http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/05icon-300x255.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px" /><br />
Galileo Offline Maps</strong></h2>
<p>If you love navigation then you will be well acquainted the various navigation tools by Galileo. Galileo Offline Maps is an awesome maps application that allows you to prepare your offline route before you embark on your journey. It features the globe, gently floating in the universe, and encircled by the letter G. The use of planetary bodies like stars is very strategic for its function since these were the modes of finding direction during the ages of our great grandfathers. But most importantly, the app logo design is solid, signifying that Galileo means business and the kind of confidence it has on its ability to help you find your way around, thus making it one of the best app logo designs you will encounter in the app store.</p>
<h2><strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="4395" data-permalink="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/logo-design/logo-design-news/6-popular-apps-great-logo-designs/attachment/06icon/" data-orig-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/06icon.jpg" data-orig-size="535,452" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="apps" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/06icon-300x253.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/06icon.jpg" class="alignleft wp-image-4395" src="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/06icon.jpg" alt="apps" width="131" height="111" srcset="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/06icon.jpg 535w, http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/06icon-300x253.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px" />Evernote Hello</strong></h2>
<p>Note taking is a phenomenon that cuts across all the mobile apps eve<br />
r since the growth of Smartphone. No need to walk around with your pen and note pad when you can do so with lots of ease using various mobile apps. Evernote Hello is one such app available to iPhone users. With regards to the app logo design, it features a happy character in a magnificent shade of green, smiling and waving at you. It can make a very nice advert for superior customer care services. The logo, however, though it looks simplistic in design, it is beautiful and one of the best app logo designs for these kinds of apps.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>How to Make a Flat Design that Rocks Very many people in the design industry think that flat design is like a fad that will be present today and gone by tomorrow. Whether or not this assumption is correct, it is imperative for every designer to keep up to date and always be ahead of &#8230;</p>
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<p>Very many people in the design industry think that flat design is like a fad that will be present today and gone by tomorrow. Whether or not this assumption is correct, it is imperative for every designer to keep up to date and always be ahead of every trend.</p>
<p>As a professional designer, it is not your duty to refuse or accept trends that you don’t necessarily agree to. Instead, you should have an open mind and consider anything that can make you add more value to you clients and improve your skills as a designer and presently, flat design is one of such things.</p>
<p>When you get to the internet, you will get a plethora of articles and web pages giving versions of illustration on various flat design projects. Whereas they are right, and most of the designs they show are breathtaking, they fail miserably at telling you how to come up with such designs on your own.</p>
<p>They leave you high and dry because they offer you with nothing at all to enhance or improve your skills towards becoming a good flat designer. We, however, break this norm and show you how you can create flat design projects that rock. For the best results, consider the following when working on flat design projects-:</p>
<h2><strong>Consider bold color choices </strong></h2>
<p>Bright and bold colors are the secret sauce in most flat design projects you will ever encounter. But this is not to say that they are the only colors you can use when working with flat designs. In fact, several flat designs don&#8217;t use bold colors, yet they give stellar end products.</p>
<p>Therefore, feel free to use bold color palettes. However, you can use not solid color hues, with different amount of lightness, slightly more than normal saturation levels and you will still end up with successful flat design projects. You can also use solid colors and have great success just as seen in the case of Windows 8.</p>
<h2><strong>Typography and Flat Design</strong></h2>
<p>The typography used is a great factor of concern when thinking about flat design projects. Typography, as usual, is an enormous subject with endless details and options. But with regards to getting it right with your flat designs, there are fundamental aspects of typography you have to give close attention.</p>
<p>For instance, the use of the traditional serif fonts has proven not to give the very best results with flat designs. You have the option of using Slab-Serif faces like Sanchez or Rockwell. But if you want the most authentic looks for your flat design, then you should consider using clean, modern Sans-serif fonts.</p>
<h2><strong>Choose icons that reflect the design theme</strong></h2>
<p>Using icons in designing is always important irrespective of what you are working on, whether they are symbols, large logos, or glyphs, icons will always fit. But with flat design projects, when you use icons, then they must create coherence with the overall design theme. You are free to use small sized icons or oversized icons so long as they don’t have any sharp or strong rounded edges and also they don’t have any gradient.</p>
<h2><strong>The use of images in flat design</strong></h2>
<p>If you have to use images in your flat design, then it is a good idea to have them filtered or stylized. You will realize that most of such designs feature full-width images that stretch across the entire layout. Again for great results, the images you use must never have any borders, so be sure to cut your images directly without creating any borders.</p>
<h2><strong>Flat Design and Spaces</strong></h2>
<p>Learning how to use spaces correctly is something that many designers still struggle with, and it’s not when doing flat design projects alone. Too much space will leave the design bare while too little space will make it look cluttered.</p>
<p>As a good design practice, you should always add spaces rather than subtract, and this also applies when you are working on flat design projects. For instance, start by including all the elements you need in the design before you start taking away the ones you don’t need so that you remain only with the essential ones.</p>
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Avoid the following</strong></h2>
<p>Proficiency in flat designing will come with a lot of practice. Besides, it is still considered a fad. Hence, there are no strong industry guidelines on what should or should not be done. Most of it involves trial and error and so far, observing the above factors has always led to great designs.</p>
<p>Even though the concept is still evolving, there are a few things that will certainly ruin your flat design projects. These include using gradients, unless they are subtle, using drop shadows, application of borders on design elements and using traditional serif fonts. Stay away from them and you will fare well with any flat design projects you make.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Royalty free fonts are all over the place! Using Royalty free fonts can help you turn around your designs from good to great. But it is important for every designer to realize that certain fonts usually come with usage restrictions, and you may be prohibited from using them for commercial purposes. It is very important &#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Royalty free fonts are all over the place!</h1>
<p>Using Royalty free fonts can help you turn around your designs from good to great. But it is important for every designer to realize that certain fonts usually come with usage restrictions, and you may be prohibited from using them for commercial purposes. It is very important to take note of such copyright issues as ignoring them may be a catalyst to a long drawn legal battle with the respective copyright owners.</p>
<p>As a designer, however, you should not restrict your creativity prowess for the fear of running into legal problems when searching for fonts online. There are several places on the internet where you can find plenty of Royalty free fonts you can use for any commercial project. The only caveat to using these kinds of fonts is that they may not be of the very best quality, but if you do a little bit of digging and searching, you will find a good number of them that will fit your design purposes. Listed below are the various sources you can use to find several royalty free fonts for your projects-:</p>
<h2><strong><a href="http://www.urbanfonts.com/">Urban Fonts</a></strong></h2>
<p>Urban Fonts is one of the few places where you will find fonts that are not just free, but also very cool for design. It presents you with a powerful search tool to let you search for the various fonts based on the names, as well as tags such like 3D, curly, comic, wave, college, cursive, etc. Urban Fonts has over 8,000 royalty free fonts as well as a few premiums ones available for purchase.</p>
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<h2><strong><a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com">Font Squirrel</a></strong></h2>
<p>Font Squirrel is a powerful resource where you find an extensive range of fonts, ranging from calligraphic to Sans serif. It has awesome filtering capabilities to let you search for the fonts based on attributes such as those ideal for eBooks, print designs, desktop and mobile applications amongst others. The other beauty of Font Squirrel as a source of royalty free fonts is that it groups them according to various formats such as distressed, contemporary, retro, all caps and many others. The resource has more than 264 unique fonts</p>
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<h2><strong><a href="http://www.1001fonts.com/">1001 Fonts</a></strong></h2>
<p>1001 fonts is one the oldest sources for royalty free fonts having been around since 1998. It has an extensive database of fonts, and it lets you search for the fonts based on any criteria you may have in mind. Though the name alludes to it having just only 1001 fonts, you will be surprised to learn that there are more than 6,000 royalty free fonts in this place.</p>
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<h2><strong><a href="http://www.losttype.com/browse/">Lost Type Fonts</a></strong></h2>
<p>Lost Type is not just a nice place to find lots of royalty free fonts, but also, it is a great resource for finding other fun graphic elements all presented in a nicely laid out interface. The site has over 50 fonts that you can download for free, and it also has a provision for you to set your pricing if you want anyof the premium fonts available. It simply implies that you can pay whatever price you feel appropriate for any font you would like to purchase.</p>
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<h2><strong><a href="http://www.hypefortype.com/">Hype for Type</a></strong></h2>
<p>Hype for Type is a premium commercial font site, but it also has an enviable collection of royalty free fonts that are worth considering. With a collection of close to 100 choices, it has something for everyone irrespective of the types of design you have. It is also worth mentioning that Hype for Types has a fun feature that lets you play around with the various fonts you have selected so that you see the kind of flexibility they can offer you.</p>
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<h2><strong><a href="http://www.google.com/fonts">Google Fonts</a></strong></h2>
<p>It is surprising to note that the world’s biggest search engine is also a source for royalty free fonts. Google Fonts brings you more than 600 royalty free fonts that designers can download and implement o their designs. Though the site has a good number of free fonts, it is recommended that you double check to confirm the usage policy of the fonts, owing to a large number of creators submitting their fonts to this resource. The site also has filters to make it easy for you to search and locate the particular fonts you want.</p>
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<h2><strong><a href="http://dafont.com">DaFont</a></strong></h2>
<p>DaFont is another cool resource that every designer interested in getting royalty free fonts should know. It doesn’t just offer you with a huge collection featuring over 23,000 fonts, but also, it categorizes the fonts according to style thus making it easy for you to search for and download the various fonts you are interested in using. For instance, if you are searching for the right fonts for a logo project, you simply head over to the logo tab, and it will give you a wide range of fonts suitable for use in logo design.</p>
<p>These are only a few of some of the places where you can find royalty free fonts on the internet. Thoughthere are others, these will suffice for most of your design work. However, feel free to research further and discover others so that you increase your list of font resources.<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="3347" data-permalink="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/graphic-design/graphic-design-articles/places-to-find-royalty-free-fonts-online/attachment/free-fonts-20151/" data-orig-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Free-Fonts-20151.jpg" data-orig-size="597,299" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image- title=""  data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Free-Fonts-20151-300x150.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Free-Fonts-20151.jpg" class="aligncenter wp-image-3347 size-full" src="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Free-Fonts-20151.jpg" alt="Royalty free fonts" width="597" height="299" srcset="http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Free-Fonts-20151.jpg 597w, http://www.logomaven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Free-Fonts-20151-300x150.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px" /></p>
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