Guilty pleasure: cooltext.com

I’ve decided to come clean. I’m notorious for refusing to pay for something if I can get it for free. So when it came time to create logos for my various businesses, did I hire someone? NO. Maybe it’s obvious, but I created my logos on my own.

How did I do it? A fancy little free online service called Cool Text. You can choose a general logo design, then play with the font, colors, textures, and size. You can download it in many image formats, then if you need to do further image editing, you can do so in your favorite image editing program.

Cool Text has a huge selection of fonts for your logos that you can also download and use on your computer. When feeling particularly uninspired by the selection of fonts in Word, I downloaded a couple of fun fonts to kickstart my creativity.

If you use it, here are a couple of tips:

• Increase the image size from 70 pixels to at least double that. That way, if you need a higher resolution version of your logo, you’ll have it. You can always resize it in your image editing program for use online.
• Create the image in png format instead of jpg. The more times you edit and save a jpg image, the more its image quality degrades. A png format will allow you to play around with it and edit it. If you need a jpg, just save your png file to jpg when you’re done editing.
• Consider mixing font styles in your logo and combining them together. You’ll need to generate each word separately and edit them together after the fact. For an example, look at http://wahmgenius.com.

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