One way to create an absolutely unique logo design is to craft the lettering by hand, as opposed to selecting an existing font. This allows the designer to create the perfect logo with their own custom ligatures, tails and loops. This post showcases 20 inspiring examples of custom lettering logos, each featuring the designer’s initial sketch to show how the hand drawn scripts are converted from pencil to vector.
Pixelo by Gert van Duinen
Mattrunks by Claire Coullon
Ink Butter by Alan Ariail
Scratch by Sergey Shapiro
Aha-ok by Sergey Shapiro
The Funtasty by Claire Coullon
Geek by Claire Coullon
Thundersnow by Eamae
The Vanity Cover by Sebastian Boros
Serendipity by Garth Humbert
Discourage by Damian King
Get Dough by Nick Slater
Cutter by Nick Slater
Curves are Beautiful by Nick Slater
Snailzilla by Igor Garybaldi
PixelCamp by Claire Coullon
Harmony by Simon Ålander
The Black Gold by Simon Ålander
Method by Claire Coullon
Stoodeo by Sergey Shapiro
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Great inspiration there! If you would like to learn more about illustrator check out my new tutorial!
http://blog.matthewbrennan.co.uk/illustrator-business-card-tutorial-buzzing-bee/
Nice tutorial. I was actually looking for something that would convert pencil into vector. Is there any special software for that? I mean the scanned to vector
Beautiful post! Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks for this great collection of typography :) logo
Love the artwork. Logos are so hard to create you make it look so easy.
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wow! thank you for these! on my favorites now…
I really like Mattrunks and Thundersnow. They are clean and stylish. Some of those are just too bold or too hard to read to be effective. Some of them are pretty cool though.
I always like to do it but was not successful. Never two same letters looks the same and it frustrates me, I envy folks can do it.
haha, Im the same Saya. Ive always thought this type of typography was cool until I tried it. Now I have a much deeper respect for it. Would love to be able to to it too :)
Just gotta keep trying I guess.
Amen to that! How I have drooled over these curvacious letters and wished to create my own. I can trace with the pen tool no problem, but getting the correct variance in thickness, ligatures, and swirls is the big challenge.
Tutorial Chris?…. :)
Thank you! This post is epic… exactly what I need right now.
Awesome collection!
Mattrunks and PixelCamp are my favorites – they’re sick
Reminds me of school! nice
Great collection! Very inspiring. Thx
Whoa cool.. I like Mattrunks
Amazing Gallery!
WOW. Just wow.
Paper and pencil are still in use!
Amazing collection. So Inspired.
Love to see how the process from paper to final.
(maybe an idea for a tutorial???)
Very cool!
Snailzilla! Some really snazy lettering!
Thanks for the really amazing round-up. It sounds that I’m a big fan of Thundersnow by Eamae. They really look like live ones.
Thanks for posting these – you cannot beat the paper and pencil approach to all things hand-crafted
PS How do I add my pic?
Fantastic round-up! So inspiring!
Really love the “Stoodeo” logo… thanks for the amazing round-up.. :D
It’s always refreshing to see the creative process, whether designing logos or just sketching out some ideas for fun. Thanks for rounding up these great examples!
Very cool. I always love seeing the process that is behind great art. Personally I like the scratch logo and the curves are beautiful. I am an artist but have never been that good at lettering. So there is a hint of jealousy with this post. truly fantastic work
Logo and graphic designing needs to be perfect to attract huge amount of traffic towards your site. You have done a great job!
Well that’s superb article! I really like this article. It contains a lot of useful information. I can set up my new idea from this post. It gives in depth information. Thanks for this valuable information for all
I love Designing and more than every field “Logo designing”,
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http://www.stylishlogo.com/best-logo-websites-and-companies.html
very beautiful logos!
I spent hours trying to do a nice hand written logo to convert to vector just the other day. After going through several sheets of paper and tearing my hair out in frustration, I remembered that my girlfriend has nice handwriting! She did a lovely, flowing word for me in about 5 seconds. Now I know what to do next time. Thanks for sharing these examples Chris.
Great. I wish i had such a nice handwriting. I did some experiments with my girlfriends handwriting but that wasn’t as nice as these examples.
Nice caps!
Autilic picture
super, beautiful typography :)
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These are some really great examples of personal typography. I always like seeing what people design themselves instead of choosing a preexisting font on their computer.
Nice compilation. I also came across Orman Clarke’s http://www.themezilla.com. They’ve got a nice typo logo. :)
Hi,
again really nice post…keep it up.
Thanks
Breathtaking post! Thanks for the motivation!
Love this :) Chris, your posts are so neat :) Interesting enough I hand lettered my logo on a bamboo tablet :)
Awesome collection :) I like each and every logo.. Creativity!!