Hello everyone, I am Ezequiel Bruni,
web designer and writer with Website Planet,
here to talk to you about DesignEvo,
another logo generator.
This review has been brought to you by coffee,
Website Planet,
and a desperate need to be liked.
Anyway.
Mostly kidding about that.
Let’s move on.
Okay, this is DesignEvo.
Now, full disclosure:
I don’t think I’ve ever used this one
before.
So I’m going in with fresh eyes
and I admit, I kinda like their logos already.
I do think logos like this one are rather
specific.
And if too many companies start using it,
it’ll start to be less valuable as a logo
icon,
but still ...
If you hear any buzzing, that’s my phone.
And still, though, the icons don’t look
bad.
At least, not the examples they’ve got here.
So let’s go ahead and make one for ...
I really should’ve opened this tab sooner.
Websiteplanet.com.
If the logo I make here
is better than all of the other logos
made in all of the other logo services
that I reviewed for Website Planet,
then it would replace this one.
Although I don’t see that happening
with any logo made by a logo generator.
These look good, but unique enough for us?
I don’t know.
We’ve got professional designers
in the running as well.
So.
‘Search Templates.’
They don’t even ask what you’re interested
in.
They give you a list of categories
and a way to search tags.
You know what?
Fair enough.
Let’s jump into
‘Technology & Communication’ real quick.
Oh God, that’s a little bit too much
like the one I made the other week.
Okay, I’m going to take a minute
to look through logos and so forth,
so I’m probably just going to fast forward
that part of the video.
So, I’ll see you in a few minutes, my time.
All right, everyone, I’m back
and I’ve got some logos to look at here.
I picked some favourites.
You can definitely see
a bit of a rocket theme going on.
But the problem is
we’ve already got a couple of
rocket-based logos from other services
in the running, so to speak.
So, I probably won’t pick any of those.
Some of these options I picked
just to show you
how good some of these logos are.
Logo icon quality does vary, greatly,
with the worst ones looking like
90s dot-com bubble type logos
but there are also some really good
and sleek-looking ones.
Like this one here ... oh.
I guess they won’t let me do a bigger preview.
Let me zoom in.
There we go.
Like this one over here.
I absolutely adore the look of it.
I adore the detail.
You lose some of that detail
at smaller sizes, of course.
Obviously, you do, but it still looks fantastic.
This DNA rocket shape?
Oh my God.
It ...
I mean, okay, if you look at it
from the wrong angle,
it looks a bit like a fish,
but otherwise, it’s gorgeous.
Very minimalistic but gorgeous.
This is less great.
Let’s just get that out of there.
I almost decided to go with this blue one,
just right off the bat.
I like the infinity rocket.
I like the concept of this sort of globe
made out of triangles.
I don’t think it’s going to work for us,
but I just wanted to show off
how cool it looked.
And there’s some other rocket stuff.
This is probably the one I’m going to go
for.
This one with the astronaut.
We don’t have anything like it
in the running so far.
It looks good.
I even like the type,
although that’s probably
going to change in a minute.
And then there was one.
Just one.
so lonely.
Let’s see, logo name and slogan
are apparently optional,
so you can just grab the icons,
if that’s something you want to do.
Now, I’m hoping I can edit these later,
because I’m thinking,
I’m going to have to abuse
the name and tagline thing again
to get the word ‘Website’
on top of the word ‘Planet,’
as I usually have to do.
Can I … ?
Oh my God!
[laughs]
Oh, you have no idea
how long I’ve waited to do that.
Okay, let’s go back to proper zoom.
There we go.
Back to 100% zoom.
The canvas is still nice and big.
[laughs] You have no idea
how much of a pain in the ass
it has been ...
I’m sorry, excuse my French ...
to find a tool that will just let me do that.
That will just let me press ‘Enter’
and the letters go down.
Ah!
I should not be this excited about this,
but I am.
I am.
That is so sad.
Okay, I have to see if I can move this over
to “not the center.”
Ooh!
And I can adjust the line height.
Oh, yes!
Okay.
Calling it now.
I like DesignEvo’s editor.
It’s very simple.
It’s nothing too complicated.
It doesn’t have what looks like
an overwhelming wealth of options.
But so far, I like the way it’s working.
So, yeah, so far,
really enjoying the logo editor here.
Oh! you can just add elements to your icon.
You can add full-on drawings.
Like illustrated looking elements.
You can construct an icon
from scratch, almost.
As long as you don’t mind using
basic pre-made shapes to do it.
So, you can work with their premade icons
or you could basically construct a logo from
scratch.
That is ...
And, of course, you can use this tool to add
simple, smaller elements to your logo.
If you want to put your shape inside of a
shield,
you can do that.
It’s not really going to work for this particular
logo,
but I wish I’d l known about this earlier.
I would’ve been thinking about
how I could combine
the premade icons with these other things.
Now, let’s see.
That’s cool.
You can change up the colors quite a bit.
Let’s go with a bright red this time.
We haven’t really done red.
We haven’t done a lot of red.
In the meantime, let’s ... oh.
I love Source Sans Pro.
I absolutely adore it.
But ... it might not be
what we’re looking for at the moment.
A little too sci-fi for my taste here.
A little too condensed.
Roboto Condensed is always a safe choice,
safe-ish choice, at least,
but I’m not sure it’s what we need right
now.
I wonder, this is ...
Hmm.
Everything is all caps ...
Oh, you can change that.
Okay.
Wow.
This editor gives you so much to play with.
I ... am so happy about that.
Oswald is always a classic.
Now, they do use all caps in the original
logo,
but I don’t believe I’m supposed to be
constrained to that, necessarily.
Let’s go with that.
Let’s go with that.
It looks good.
There’s a bit of contrast,
but not so much that it stands out too much.
Now, how do we want to do this?
Do we want to make this smaller
and fit better?
I think we do.
Oh!
I love that I can do that.
That’s ...
This is one of the best ...
Oh.
that’s the actual size.
Huh.
That’s the actual size.
Good to know.
But this is ...
Ooh, is that a grid?
They have a grid!
I should not be as excited
as I am about these things.
You can just flip the layout around
quickly and easily.
Oh, I like that.
I like the look of that.
I wish I wasn’t this excited about all of
this.
Man, it’s almost embarrassing!
Okay, that was a little idea
that we’re not going to use
but I just wanted to show off
how the different icons could be combined.
You could put dozens of icons into your logo,
if that’s how you want to play it.
I wouldn’t.
But you can.
Oh!
That was unintentional.
Let’s not do that.
I thought it would treat everything
as a group
and it doesn’t do that.
That’s a little unintuitive.
Oh well.
But you can group things together.
Align them together.
Which is useful.
All right.
I’m gonna play around
with this a little more.
And then I’m just going to skip ahead
and we’ll see if we like it enough to buy
it.
Well, I have done my playing.
I’ve done my very serious
design work, actually,
and I have decided that I rather like
this typeface right here.
It’s called Doppio One
and it’s got a mix of professionalism
and personality going on
and it looks readable at small sizes.
I added a gradient in the background
for this icon,
starting with the same base color as the type,
but going a little darker, to add some ...
you know, a sense of life to the icon
and also, you know, to make it
not all the same color exactly.
Give it a little bit of contrast.
And I think that looks pretty good.
I think I’m quite happy with how it turned
out,
reasonably happy.
I’m not going to sit here all day
and experiment with all the icons,
although I could.
I could!
And I really like the editor.
So, I’m going to talk more
about all of that in a minute,
after I have bought this logo,
and we’ll see how
the downloaded files look and all of that.
So, see you all in a bit.
Hello, everybody.
I’m back
and I’ve got the logo from DesignEvo.
Couple of things I should mention real quick.
You can actually download
a free sample of your logo.
That’s this file right here.
Now, the images are very small,
as you can see.
And in order to have permission
to use these preview logos anywhere,
you have to include a link to DesignEvo.com
on your website or blog,
wherever you’re using the logo,
and share their link on your social media.
And you get to use it for free,
and as far as I can tell,
that includes commercial applications.
But you have a very small resolution logo.
Now, let’s look at the full product.
They include a copy of the font file,
so if you want to use the same typeface
for other things, you can.
They include ... let’s see.
The basic file here is definitely much bigger.
Definitely more usable.
And the vector files.
Those are the files
that are infinitely scalable,
so you can open them up in Adobe Illustrator
or Inkscape or Affinity Designer,
and you can make them as big
as you need to be,
without ever losing quality.
We’ve got SVG, which can also be
embedded on web pages,
but does not preview very well in Windows.
And then we’ve got
good old PDFs for print.
But overall, the files you get
when you download your logo are just fine.
They’re more than serviceable.
Let’s head on over to the webcam.
Okay, final thoughts on DesignEvo.
I like it.
I like the actual software quite a bit.
I love the editor.
Love the editor!
It’s very simple, but it allows me
to do so many things.
It’s very flexible.
You could just pick a logo from their library,
and if you wanted to,
you could erase that logo in the editor
and build something almost from scratch,
you know, using other logo shapes as parts,
or icons as parts, to build a complete logo.
It’s not a drawing app
but it’s still a very flexible logo editor
and I like that a lot.
The logo library is another matter.
It’s very hit and miss.
Some of them are very good, I thought.
A little generic, obviously,
but that’s sort of what’s going to happen
with these logo libraries.
But some of them are also not that great.
We’re talking old 90s dot-com bubble.
So, you know, it’s very hit and miss and
...
I mean, it’s obviously going to depend
on the keywords you use.
There are more logos for some purposes
than for others.
But overall, I think DesignEvo has a very
good,
solid foundation as a logo creator.
Maybe one day, if they add some AI to it
or add some more abstract shapes
and ways to create more unique
and less generic-looking logos,
I think that DesignEvo
could compete with the big boys.
As of now, it’s good.
It’s not the best, but it’s certainly
good.
Well that’s my opinion on DesignEvo.
I hope you found this video educational,
useful,
fun,
enlightening ... or something.
And I’ll see you all around.
This is Ezequiel Bruni, signing out.
