Ask HN: Best website to get a custom logo?

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I'd like to pay a designer for the creation of a custom logo. I know how it needs to look. I just need a talented designer to give me the favicon.ico file, PNGs, JPGs etc.

Have you had any experience with having a remote designer create a logo? If so, can you point me to their websites?

Thanks!

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Fiverr is popular on the low end and 99designs in the middle, but quality is very hit or miss. The approach I recommend is going to this page on Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/search?q=logo&s=latest and then contacting the designers whose work you like. They will give you a proposal and a quote based on your initial request.

There are dozens of cheap logo stores on etsy:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/easylogo https://www.etsy.com/shop/Logolane ...

One option I've found for basic designs is to run a competition on Freelancer (I think Fiverr and others do this too). If you put a reasonable guaranteed payment you'll get a bunch of entries and see the quality people quickly. Also you'll get more variety to chose from.

The added benefit is this gives you a stable of better designers you can reach-out to directly for other jobs later.

"I know how it needs to look."

Check Squarespace creator or Logodust. More than good for MVP and from there is much easier to iterate with designer.

[0] http://logo.squarespace.com/ [1] http://www.logodust.com/

http://logoshi.com

It allows you to draw a rough, color sketch based on which it generates a sample of possible logos for you to pick from and tweak.

For someone like me, who just needs a logo, perhaps based on the project name, but doesn't care about the design so much, this has been perfect.

https://99designs.com/

Happy to do it. You can pay me what you want.

What's your budget?

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