If you need to design a baseball club logo for your team, there are many elements to consider. There are many baseball club levels; from community and neighborhood clubs all the way up to professional teams. Baseball began with informal teams in the early 1800’s and soon reached the status of America’s National Pastime. With clubs all over the United States, your baseball club’s logo needs to reflect the team’s location, level, and motif chosen as their mascot or character.
A good graphic designer will provide specific information on their website or will explain their services if you work with a local designer. You’ll want to check their reputation and ask them for logo samples in the same genre as yours. Find out what they offer for color choices, font types, samples graphics if you don’t have any, and how long it will take them to finish the logo. Probably the most important option is how many revisions you can make after the initial design is done. If you need more changes then they allow for, it can become very expensive.
Besides a professional logo designer, you could make us of online sites that offer free logo creation. This can be risky. Many sites offer clip art for an image that may be low quality and cheap. Fonts may be limited also. You could do some research and design your own logo using readily available software such as word processors or simple design programs. If you choose to go this route, keep in mind the advantages of hiring a graphic designer: professional design ideas, unlimited color choices, appropriate fonts, and experience in creating an impacting yet slim lined logo.
Baseball club logos normally reflect the team’s colors and a certain mark or image. It’s possible to incorporate a graphic in your logo, but remember that this logo will be used in small capacities and for transfer to items such as uniforms, baseball caps, banners, and many other related products. Consult with team leaders and follow historical design from previous trademarks of the team, but take it to the next level with a professional looking logo that can stay with the team for years into the future. You want your baseball club logo to be recognized as soon as people see it. When you choose colors for the logo, black is normally considered a color and white is just the filler for a transparent background. Black can be sued for the text and paired with colors like cobalt blue and bright yellow if these are your team’s colors. Stay with two or three colors.
If you do some research before you meet with a designer, or begin work with an online business, you will already have your logo design in mind.
Here are some steps to prepare to work with a designer:
1. Settle on the logo’s colors.
2. Obtain any images or graphics that need to be incorporated.
3. Have the baseball club name and any other text decided on.
4. Choose several other baseball club logos that reflect the style you’re looking for.
5. Go through fonts readily available in programs such as MS Word or online at font distribution websites and choose several you like.
6. Hand sketch an idea to bring with you or scan and upload to the designer.
All these steps prior to designing your baseball club logo will help you create the right logo for your club.
