Alright, so the other day, me and my partner got this idea, or rather, she got this idea, that we needed a “couples logo.” Yeah, you heard that right. A logo. For us. As a couple. Don’t ask me what we’re gonna use it for. I suspect it’s just one of those things you see online and think, “Hey, we should have that!” So, down the rabbit hole we went.
The Grand Idea Phase (Spoiler: It Wasn’t Grand)
First things first, we had to figure out what this thing would even look like. This was where the fun began, and by fun, I mean the mild bickering. She was thinking something elegant, maybe with our initials intertwined in some fancy script, or perhaps a symbol that represented “us.” I, on the other hand, just wanted something simple that wouldn’t take a week to design. My initial thought was, “Can’t we just, like, write our names next to each other?” Apparently, that wasn’t “logo-ey” enough.
We spent a good evening just throwing ideas around. She’d sketch something on a piece of paper, I’d squint at it, and then I’d try to sketch something, and she’d do the polite “Hmm, interesting.” You know how it goes. Lots of “What about this?” and “No, that looks weird.”
Getting Our Hands Dirty (Digitally, of Course)
After realizing our artistic skills on paper were, let’s say, limited, I decided to fire up the computer. I figured there must be some easy-to-use software or website for this kind of stuff. I wasn’t about to learn Photoshop from scratch for a couples logo, no sir.
So, I did a quick search. Found a few free online logo maker things. Most of them were pretty clunky, to be honest. You pick a template, change some text, and voila, a generic logo that a thousand other people probably have. Not exactly what we were aiming for, but it was a start. We needed something a bit more personal, but without the headache of a full-blown design suite.
I eventually settled on a fairly basic vector editing tool I had lying around. Nothing fancy, but it gave me more control than those template sites. The plan was to combine our initials – let’s say ‘A’ and ‘B’ for simplicity here.
The Actual “Design” Process
This is where the real “fun” started. Trying to make an ‘A’ and a ‘B’ look good together is harder than it sounds.
- First, I just placed them side-by-side. Looked like a typo.
- Then, I tried overlapping them. One version looked okay, another looked like a mess.
- She suggested making one initial flow into the other. Easier said than done with my limited skills. I fiddled with curves and lines for what felt like ages. Lots of undoing. So much undoing.
- We talked about adding a little heart, or maybe an ampersand. The heart felt a bit too cheesy for my taste, and the ampersand made it look too much like a company logo.
We spent a good couple of hours just trying different arrangements. She’d be looking over my shoulder, offering suggestions. “Move that a bit to the left.” “No, my other left.” “Can you make that line thicker?” It was a proper team effort, if your definition of team effort involves one person doing the clicking and the other art directing with varying degrees of success.
Settling on “Good Enough”
Eventually, after much tweaking, deleting, and starting over, we landed on a concept that didn’t make either of us cringe. It was a fairly simple design. We took our initials, found a font that wasn’t too boring but not too crazy either. We ended up with a design where parts of the letters subtly connected. Nothing groundbreaking, believe me. It wasn’t going to win any design awards.
Then came the color debate. Oh boy. She wanted pastels. I wanted something a bit bolder. We eventually compromised on a muted blue and a soft grey. It was… acceptable to both parties. That’s a win in my book.
I saved the file in a few different formats, just in case this logo ever sees the light of day on something other than my computer screen. A PNG, an SVG… you know, the works, just to be thorough.
So, We Have a Logo. Now What?
And that’s pretty much it. We now officially possess a “couples logo.” It’s sitting in a folder on my hard drive. Will we ever use it? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe for a custom mug someday? Or perhaps it’ll just be a digital relic of that one time we decided to brand our relationship.
The whole process was a bit more involved than I initially thought for such a simple outcome. But hey, we did it. We collaborated, we compromised (mostly me, I think), and we created something. It wasn’t exactly a groundbreaking achievement, but it was a thing we did. And now I can say I’ve designed a couples logo. Add that to the list of utterly random things I’ve done.
