Ask HN: What did you pay for your logo • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for your logo

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Post by mtmail » Wed, Mar 07, 2018, 10:23 AM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #7

jeffmould wrote: post #3

$360 using Fiverr. However, that was split across three designers. I hired three designers, told them what I wanted, and used the best one. Each was about $120 each. To get started I looked with designers with a fairly large portfolio and good reviews. I then asked some basic questions to see if they were capable. I used the questions to screen out designers that simply responded with canned responses or obviously di…

Nice. You could wrap all that up as a service for $500+ perhaps?

https://en.99designs.de/how-it-works is in the space of creating competitions. They claim 1.6m designers on the platform.

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for your logo

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Post by mapster » Wed, Mar 07, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

I search dribbble and get ideas then create a simple vector logo in Illustrator based on the one I chose.

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for your logo

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Post by wandahalpert » Thu, Mar 08, 2018, 4:03 AM UTC

We use Tanusri B. at Freelancer.com Her and her team are amazing. They design the best logos at the best price. Consistent, reliable and only USD$30. We have made hundreds with this team.

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for your logo

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Post by paulmatthijs » Thu, Mar 08, 2018, 10:41 PM UTC

As a bit of counterweight to all these "$5" replies: we paid about €7K for our logo - which is not a lot.

I've been a logo designer myself, waaaay back, and have always known that just having someone designing a pictogram and styling a word is kinda winging it. There's more to it than being good at drawing/sketching/Adobe-doey.

Our logo was a three month process with a branding agency, of which the actual logo design took less than a month to iterate.

The main part is getting straight what the brand represents, who's it for and what the persona of the brand is. You want the designer to really understand what the product/company is about. We couldn't have done this went starting out, since we didn't know all that.

So, if there's a take-away from all this, besides that good logos cost good money, is that you should get your product really straight, before spending money on a logo. Bad or fuzzy product view gets you a bad logo.