Step42: Logos – How to do a nice logos, examples

28 Sep, 1989 | Demo

How to create nice logos

Creating a logo was a tough job in the time. The main points were:

Define the size of the logo (with coders)
Define the number of colors allowed in the logo (2, 4, 8, 16 or 32 colors)
Define the style (there were no TTF font at that time, so the style had to be reinvented)

The very first logos were simples or inspired by existing typographies.

Hawk logos

Here is a compilation of HAWK logos, with some unreleased logos.

The best logos

From this website and 300 voters, here are the best amiga logos

Angel Dawn / Fairlight

J.O.E. / TRSI

Reward / Scoopex

Krest3 / Anarchy

Uno / Cryptoburners

Logos collection

Here is a very nice mockup of lot of amiga logos (from deviant art«demoscene amiga»)

Book

Edition64K released a great book about scene logos (2022). The page is here

Cool demo of that time

Anarchy – Inspiration is None (1991)

Links

Nice collection of scene logos: cumbrowski

Logos patchwork by «demoscene amiga»: demoscene-amiga.deviantart

Best logos of Amiga scene: the-best-logos-of-commodore-amiga-scene

Who created the best logo: who-created-the-best-logos

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About me

Hello. My name is Christophe KOHLER. Norn in 1973, I'm 50 year old (in 2024) and working as video game creator till 2000. When I was young, I've been involved in the Amiga demo scene during 9 years (from 1989 to 1998). I was 16 years old at the time and had really lot of fun using Amiga computers.
I took much pleasure writing these pages. First because it reminded some good memories. And secondly because I wanted to explain how the amiga computer worked and what have been our work on them.