Quick answer
Avoid the cliché traps most small businesses fall into when designing their logo.
Your logo doesn't need to tell your whole story. It just needs to be memorable, recognisable and usable.
The top 10 mistakes
- Using more than 2 fonts
- Trendy gradients that'll look dated in 2 years
- Stock icons everyone else also bought
- Tagline glued to the logo (it should work alone)
- Doesn't work in single-colour / black-and-white
- Illegible at favicon size (16x16)
- Overly literal (a cake shop with a cake icon — boring)
- Designed in raster (JPG) instead of vector (SVG/AI)
- Copies a competitor too closely
- No defined safe space, colour codes, or usage guidelines
The fix
A real logo system: primary mark, secondary mark, monogram, favicon, colour palette with HEX/CMYK/Pantone, typography rules, and a 1-page brand guideline. That's what we ship at Pacewalk.
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