New Fictional Logos

[hurricanekevin]

Hello Everyone!

I'm fairly new to the logo creation process but using all of the great logos from this community over the years has inspired me to teach myself some of the basics. I'd like to post them here to share back with a community that has given so much depth to my leagues over the years. I'm also open for some constructive criticism if any of you have some tips.

*I'm using GIMP and struggling with the fuzzy halo edges a bit still. I'm in the process of learning Inkscape, but just started with it.

*Sometimes my team names can a be a bit abstract. Maybe its because I'm more of a soccer person? Either way, I'm sure I'll have to make some Bears and Lions soon enough.

Ishpeming Ironhearts
San Francisco Bohemia
Las Cruces Galactics

Here's a link to my drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...31?usp=sharing

*Update 11/15/2021: So this thread kept going. Maybe I need to explain what is going on here for some context. In an effort to learn and practice the graphics side of the game I am working on a project to create 435 individual logos for teams across the United States, territories, Native American reservations, and U.S. military bases. I'm building these logos to use in OOTP, FHM, and Football Manager.
The goal is to work fast, create fast, practice skills, and acquire new ones. I'm not working on secondary logos, uniforms, or caps. I'll edit designs that don't work once I'm done. I'm sharing these here in case they happen to be useful to someone else since in the past I've used so many great graphics from this community. I'm not doing any custom work at this point in time.

Right now I'm well over halfway though my goal with over 225 logos available on my drive. I'm posting the highlights here. I'm appreciative of all of the feedback I've gotten so far. I don't have a graphics art background and am very much learning as I go.

Why 435? That's a pretty random number. Well that's the number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives. I'm roughly making one city for each House member, with the exception of halving the number California. Nobody needs 53 California teams, sorry California. I've distributed those numbers to states with smaller populations, overseas territories, Native reservations, and military bases. The imaginary goal is a very egalitarian distribution with a team representing the most possible Americans across a variety of communities. Even when I play pretend, I guess I try to be fair.

While I'm learning a lot about GIMP and Inkscape, I'm also learning a lot about our great country and all of the diverse communities across the nation and overseas.

[hurricanekevin]

Chicago Dominion
San Jose Atomic
Macon Pineforest

[hurricanekevin]

St. Louis Black Arrow
Wheeling Nails
Woonsocket Thirteen

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Should be Cincinnati Cosmopolis, not Cinncinati Cosmopolis. Just so you know. Otherwise, looking pretty good so far. CD out.

[hurricanekevin]

I've been looking at that logo sideways for a few days now thinking there was something wrong. Appreciate it. I'll change it up tonight.

[koohead]

i like your unique style. Well done!

[Eugene Church]

You have a lot of talent... and you are creative in your logo styles... I like your badge-type logos used on Woonsocket and Chicago... really looking forward to more of your work.

The Ishpeming Ironhearts is really very good... very well designed graphically.

Also like the Chicago Dominion, Woonsocket, St. Louis and San Francisco logos.

Do you do jerseys and caps, too?

And since you asked for constructive criticism... here goes... hope it helps.
No problem if you disagree... "Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder".

The San Jose Atomic is creative, but it is too busy and fancy for me... the multi-colored background under San Jose will not work well on OOTP screens, especially at 50 x 50 pixels.

I'm a fan of logos that are simply done... simple logos that have good color contrast and clarity show up best in on the OOTP game screens, especially at the smaller sizes like 50 x 50 pixels.

A fancy logo will look great at 300 x 300 pixels and 150 pixels... but when they get reduced to 50 x 50 in the game, fancy designs don't show up well.

The rest of your logos should look good on the game screens... they are done well, plain and simple with good color contrasts.

You might try another font on the Macon logo... it may be too plain... just my opinion.

Overall your work is well done!

[hurricanekevin]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

You have a lot of talent... and you are creative in your logo styles... I like your badge-type logos used on Woonsocket and Chicago... really looking forward to more of your work.

The Ishpeming Ironhearts is really very good... very well designed graphically.

Also like the Chicago Dominion, Woonsocket, St. Louis and San Francisco logos.

Do you do jerseys and caps, too?

And since you asked for constructive criticism... here goes... hope it helps.
No problem if you disagree... "Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder".

The San Jose Atomic is creative, but it is too busy and fancy for me... the multi-colored background under San Jose will not work well on OOTP screens, especially at 50 x 50 pixels.

I'm a fan of logos that are simply done... simple logos that have good color contrast and clarity show up best in on the OOTP game screens, especially at the smaller sizes like 50 x 50 pixels.

A fancy logo will look great at 300 x 300 pixels and 150 pixels... but when they get reduced to 50 x 50 in the game, fancy designs don't show up well.

The rest of your logos should look good on the game screens... they are done well, plain and simple with good color contrasts.

You might try another font on the Macon logo... it may be too plain... just my opinion.

Overall your work is well done!

No jerseys and caps yet. That's the next step. I'm kind of learning the logo side right now but I'm sure I'll get around to jerseys and caps (and sweaters since I want to use these for FHM too.)

Great point on the San Jose one, I was trying to really make something that captured an early 1960s aesthetic, but hadn't even thought about what it would look like smaller. That one was definitely just seeing what I could do.

With the Macon logo, I kind of agree. I like the boldness, but the font comes with Unicode to create flourishes that I couldn't figure out in GIMP.

Appreciate the feedback EC, thank you! I'll post some more in a few days.

[Mr. Marlin]

Nice work!

[hurricanekevin]

Colorado Springs Citadel
Saginaw Spanners
Nashville Ironclad

[Eugene Church]

What are the fonts on the Ishpeming Ironhearts?

I would like to use it for one of my Islandian Pro Alliance teams.

[hurricanekevin]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

What are the fonts on the Ishpeming Ironhearts?

I would like to use it for one of my Islandian Pro Alliance teams.

Cool!

The top is "Titania" and the bottom is "Viner Hand ITC"

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

You can get Titania on fontspace.com, if you don't already have it, and it's 100 percent free, it seems, EC. The second font is free for personal use only, as well, evidently. CD out.

[hurricanekevin]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

You can get Titania on fontspace.com, if you don't already have it, and it's 100 percent free, it seems, EC. The second font is free for personal use only, as well, evidently. CD out.

Have I broken a rule here? I can remove them if I need to. I'm not trying to make money off of this (obviously)

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Not to my knowledge, yet, but I was just trying to let EC know whether they were free or not, and how free for his use they were, that's all. There's no need to remove them at all, hurricanekevin, as far as I know for sure right now. Keep up the great work. I hope to see a lot more of it in the future, for sure. CD out.

[hurricanekevin]

Daytona Beachcombers
Stillwater Omega
Charleston Centaurs

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by hurricanekevin

Cool!

The top is "Titania" and the bottom is "Viner Hand ITC"

Thanks for the font names.

You have broken no rules... your fonts are no problem.

[hurricanekevin]

Detroit Stalwart
Concord Transcendental
Astoria Casuals

[hurricanekevin]

Cocoa Beach Moonshots
Orlando Eolas
New Haven Wheelmen

[hurricanekevin]

Elgin Mystic
Toms River Wandering Star
Louisville Rapid