SHA! Logo Critique
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You're a startup, nobody knows your company, and you don't even care if people know the name of it? Real smart. Yup, that'll get people talking about your company. JHR games. Or is it SHN games? Or CHN games? Some kid asks his mom for JHA games, she goes to the store, doesn't find it, comes home and tells him the store only had SHR games. (I have no idea what product you're actually selling or if will even be in stores, but point being, you can see how communication and word-of-mouth will suffer.)
What if I want to know more about your game company, and I see your logo, and I Google search for "JHR games", and I get no hits for what I'm looking for, and I give up............... ? You just lost a potential customer. And you're going to lose a shit-ton of potential customers just from this alone.
I think you worked too hard on this logo and you are too invested in it to let it go. Can you not create another logo, equally as "cool", but actually legible? I think you can. It's just three letters. Maybe you just haven't done enough explorations?
And I especially like everyone's stupid rationale of "I can't read it, but who gives a shit?". You probably shouldn't take advice from people who give that sort of feedback.
Also don't understand your point about "i don't want to make it easy for people either." Why not? Why not have it easy AND cool looking?
Anyway, good luck with your venture.
- i don't like your toneinteliboy
- maybe my tone can rub people the wrong way. but i wouldn't have taken the time to post if i didn't care.iCanHazQBN
- If you can think about all the scenarios of how people could misread the logo, and then think about how short theiriCanHazQBN
- attention spans are, you'd realize that they won't bother to figure out who your company is...iCanHazQBN
- and they won't bother to figure how to pronounce it. Attention spans are much shorter than they were in the 80's and 90'siCanHazQBN
- ..in the days of Stussy.iCanHazQBN
- It's not very often that people come across the logo by itself. You have to think about the contextukit2
- The context will be that it's a game company. But if they can't read the company name, then it doesn't matter.iCanHazQBN
- They'll know that they like the game, but they won't be able to talk about it or write about it.iCanHazQBN
- By context I mean additional text, video, website, etc. Not very often that you see a logo with no context at all.ukit2
- totally hear you, and agree w/ most of ur points. appreciate it!prophetone
- I agree too. But I guess, out of all companies, a video game company can get away with stylised text.inteliboy
- Seriously, come on now.inteliboy
- Generally agree.set