Awesome free logo generator

[FrozenCanuck]

Hey all,

For those of you who are like me and don't have much in the way of artistic abilities, and you want to put up simple but professional looking websites for you muses, try this:

http://cooltext.com/

I stumbled on it by accident and it is freakin' COOL. You can select fonts, colors, styles, sizes, etc. And it renders your graphic in GIF or JPG format automatically for you to then download. FREE. So cool.

Have fun.
FC

[Drewkerr]

I must say that makes you the MVP for the month. great add to the board!

This should be a sticky!!

Drew

[final_id]

It's an ad-farm. You put in your text, choose some obvious options which you could have done on your own home computer (background image, font style and size, that's about it), and then WAIT a long time while the page recycles with a lie on it ("Rendering jobs in front of you in the queue: 52"; "... 48"; "...27"; etc.) and a whole new batch of Google Ad-Words on each recycle. It's not there to offer free logos, and in fact it hardly even does that; rather, it's there to make you look at their Google Ad-Words, and whoever programmed it got wise to the concept of a page re-fresh which will get him more likely some click-throughs.

Very cagey trick. But absolutely unethically misleading, to me. And the logos suck, too. They aren't true logotypes, they're just options for fonts and background images. You couldn't make the Coca-Cola logo on that thing, you could only choose text on a red background in "Venice" font at 40 point. Only a close approximation.

I feel mislead. Proud to say I didn't click any of that jerk's ads.

[FrozenCanuck]

Geez FinalID - I think the guy has put together a useful site and if it is full of ads, fine. I didn't click on any either, and if I wanted a nice looking logo there are a lot of ideas to get me started from his site. If I want to test a muse and don't have hours to muck around with logos, it is a good option.

So what if he puts ads on the site. I could care less.

Just my opinion ...

[wildsoul]

I've used Cool Text many times for temporary website logos and on my personal blog (http://www.russianriverchalet.com). They are a great short-term solution!

The logos won't convert to being good for printed materials, but just fine for a muse test-site!

ANOTHER GOOD ONE:
I've been using http://www.picnik.com/app as an online image editor for a few months now. Indispensable for blogs and websites. They just added the ability to add text to a photo! One of my low-tech clients needed a website banner, so I told her to create one at Picknik. She emailed back to say "...even a monkey could do that!" It's true.

Picknik has been free while it's been in beta, but starting this week or next you'll have to pay a modest annual fee to get the advanced features, like text. I've been so darn happy with it, that I'll gladly subcribe.

[outofbandii]

Hey, Cooltext works pretty well, I've used it when stuck before.

We do professional logo design for as little as $500. Our portfolio is at www.logon.ie/portfolio and if you contact me mentioning 4HW I'll give you a 25% discount for as many as is financially viable.