Typophile

Logo for my personal tech site

benharrison

I built a site a couple months back, and wish I had found this site before I was done. I would appreciate some feedback on the logo I made for my site:

I wanted something clean and sharp that could be used in a variety of ways; printable, over complex backgrounds, possibly on t shirts & other mediums, looks good in black & white as well as other variations that include multiple colors. I also want to be able to add it to a new background image for the site to easily create a different look (sorta like the backgrounds on MTV’s website)

Here is a screenshot of how I’m using it as the logo currently.

Please, let me know your thoughts on this. I think it’s the first logo I’ve made that isn’t crappy.

The concept doesn’t work, sorry its forced. Its not clear where you are going with this,

Are you being sincere or ironic? I’m not trying to be obnoxious, but I honestly can’t tell.

From a purely aesthetic perspective, I find the question mark to be very odd - it doesn’t look like a question mark, and is encroaching on the L. The huge pixelated arrow in the background is competing in space with the second “W”, and the first Ws of each line are also competing with each other in a distracting way. The “wnload” in color and style reminds me of Howard Dean’s campaign materials from a few years ago, which is probably not what you’re i

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