Comments on: Colours and Fonts http://www.barenakedapp.com/the-design/colours-and-fonts A behind-the-scenes look at selling dropsend.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Bare Naked App » Blog Archive » Vectoring Around http://www.barenakedapp.com/the-design/colours-and-fonts#comment-468 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:35:51 +0000 http://www.barenakedapp.com/the-design/colours-and-fonts#comment-468 [...] What’s your next step after sketches/what programs do you use? After I am done sketching, I jump into Adobe Illustrator. I know a lot of people who have a terrible fear of Illustrator, which is a shame, because it’s a very powerful and useful program. “Why not Photoshop?,” you might ask. Well, Photoshop is a damn fine program too, but I don’t like it for logo work (unless there is something concerning the logo that Photoshop inherently does better, eg. anything dealing with photography manipulation). I learned Illustrator before Photoshop, so that may have something to do with it, but Illustrator feels very fast for fleshing out my ideas, especially for heavy shape editing or color and font play. What’s more, I think it’s extremely important to create a vector version of your logo so that you aren’t tied to specific resolutions or dimensions; you can quickly edit and be on your merry way. [...] […] What’s your next step after sketches/what programs do you use? After I am done sketching, I jump into Adobe Illustrator. I know a lot of people who have a terrible fear of Illustrator, which is a shame, because it’s a very powerful and useful program. “Why not Photoshop?,” you might ask. Well, Photoshop is a damn fine program too, but I don’t like it for logo work (unless there is something concerning the logo that Photoshop inherently does better, eg. anything dealing with photography manipulation). I learned Illustrator before Photoshop, so that may have something to do with it, but Illustrator feels very fast for fleshing out my ideas, especially for heavy shape editing or color and font play. What’s more, I think it’s extremely important to create a vector version of your logo so that you aren’t tied to specific resolutions or dimensions; you can quickly edit and be on your merry way. […]

]]> by: Rico http://www.barenakedapp.com/the-design/colours-and-fonts#comment-66 Thu, 11 May 2006 12:39:52 +0000 http://www.barenakedapp.com/the-design/colours-and-fonts#comment-66 Hey fellas, Just to letcha know, when I first saw the logo, I thought of "Amigo" and not "Ami Go." :) (I look through the pictures first before the blog post text.) I love it by the way, really really clever. Salut to Jason. :) And I happen to like the green best. Hey fellas,

Just to letcha know, when I first saw the logo, I thought of “Amigo” and not “Ami Go.” :) (I look through the pictures first before the blog post text.)

I love it by the way, really really clever. Salut to Jason. :) And I happen to like the green best.

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