The Futur Academy

Logo Design – How to Improve Your Letterforms

How do you improve the letterforms in your logos? How do you optically balance your logo designs? How do you improve the overshoots of your curved typography? Find out the answers to these important questions in this video tutorial.
Length 11:33
Price Free of charge
Subject Design, Logo Design
Languages English
Video Transcripts English

About the video

In this episode, Chris Do, carefully adjusts the details of this “devote” logotype.

Meet the instructors

The Futur Academy is a group of creative professionals and educators that teach practical design and business education to a fast-growing global audience.

Video syllabus

0:46 – problems with the logo
0:54 – What are overshoots?
1:18 – Matching thicks and thins
1:44 – Aim for optical balance
3:18 – Finessing the letter thicknesses
3:40 – Comparing to Bauer Bodoni
4:50 – Study well-drawn typefaces
6:30 – Simplify your illustrator curves
8:05 – Compare each logo version
8:23 – How to draw an “e” in Adobe Illustrator