For a typographic logo on my personal website, I drafted 2 different logos. Most of the files can be resized with minimal effort so the following image sizes are only temporary.

As this is a personal webpage, any typographic logo is going to be some version of my name. Considering the target audience for this page being recruiters or other potential employers, I want any logo I produce to be very easily read and professional looking. As such, both designs I produced are relatively minimal and clean, having crisp, clean fonts and colors so as to allow the reader to instantly know who I am while not distracting them from the actual content of the page.

This first design I did was an attempt to make a truly minimal purely text based design. It is only my name in a very thin lined sans-serif font. I chose a sans serif font for this first design because I wanted it to have a sleek and modern appearance since that is the type of appearance that most tech companies are trying to portray in themselves these days.

For my second design, I wanted to make something a bit more thematic. While a personal webpage doesn’t intrinsicly have too much of a theme to it other than self-promotion and business, I figured that as a computer science major and enthusiast and someone who is trying to get a tech related career, that a tech themed logo could possibly serve well. I decided to recreate the look of an old-school terminal computer, placing my first and last name on seperate lines in the terminal and relying on the color and ‘>’ symbols to convey the theme. Going with the terminal look, I naturally used the ‘Courier’ font as it was the font that was used in many terminals. Additionally, while not neccessarily as obvious or recognizable, the specific color of green chosen is the same color green as was used in the original Apple II computer.

Since this Logo was in color, I produced a black and white/transparent version as well

Also, I tried animating this logo as an experiment to make it look like my name being typed out. this version could be used potentially on the splash page if I chose to have my splash page be a navigation hub and not have any content that the looping animation might be distracting from. Additionally, I could just have the animation not loop so that when you first enter the page it types my name out and then it becomes a static image.