Inkscape Tutorial: Vintage Logo Design

[Music] this is Nick with logos by Nick comm and in today's tutorial I'll be demonstrating how you can create this vintage style logo using Inkscape and before you open up Inkscape be sure to download and install a specific font that will be using it's called free serif I'll have a link to it in the description of the video so go ahead and download that file and install it into your operating system and then open up and scape otherwise it won't it won't show up in the font directory if you install a wall ting escapes open so you'll have to refresh it if you do that so once you've done that we'll be good to get started here in Inkscape by the way if you'd like to know how you can update ink scapes appearance with this dark theme and these customized icons I'll have a link to that information in the description of the video the first thing you want to do is just set up our document so I'll get a file document properties and I'll set the display units to pixels I'm going to turn off the visibility of the page border now we can close out of that and then we'll open up the align and distribute menu we're gonna want last selected chosen from that drop-down and then we'll open up the Edit objects colors gradients and Stroke menu with that button there and then we're gonna want to go to view we want custom selected and then zoom zoom in at 1 to 1 and the first thing I'm going to do is create some text so I'm going to grab the text tool over here and I'm going to be writing two lines of text the first line of text is going to be the text that wraps around the top half of the circle and the second line of text is going to be the text that wraps around the bottom half of the circle so I'm gonna go ahead and click on the canvas till we get a blinking cursor and all caps I'm going to write for the sake of this tutorial I'm going to write the vintage logo design and then I'll click down here and right for the bottom half of the circle with Inkscape and what I'll do now is I'll grab the Select tool I'm gonna click and drag over both of those text objects and grab the text editor up here let me grab that from my other monitor here we go you shrink that down a little bit and I'm just gonna look for that font that we installed called free serif there it is go ahead and click apply that we can close out of that and we now have our two text items so what I want to do now is grab the circles and ellipses tool and I'm gonna hold ctrl and shift in the keyboard and click and drag to create a nice perfectly round circle like that this is gonna be the circle that we wrap our text around I'm gonna want to bring the opacity of this down a lot maybe about actually no bring it down in half and then just we'll make the color of this like a light shade of grey something like that and I'll grab the Select tool I'm going to grab this text and with it selected hold shift and click on the circle and go to text put on path and it's gonna wrap that text around the outside of the circle so I'm going to go ahead and click off of everything to deselect everything and click on just the circle right here and then I'll click on it again to get the rotation handles and I'm just going to rotate it around to bring our text to the top and the text itself may seem quite I want it to be wrapping around almost the entire top half of the circle so to do that I'm gonna do a couple of things first I'm gonna click on the circle again to get back to the scaling handles and I'm gonna hold ctrl and just scale this circle down a little bit and then I'm gonna grab the text tool and click on the text to select it and up here where this icon is spacing between letters just go ahead and hold that arrow up to add some spacing between those letters like that then I'll go back to the Select tool I'm going to click on the circle click on it begin to get the rotation handles and just rotate it around so you straightened out now you want to make it so that the edge of each letter the V and the N here are sitting on the same horizontal plane so to do that to make sure that we have that sitting equally like that I'm gonna come up here to where this ruler is these little increments and I'm just gonna click and drag a pull down a horizontal guide just like that and I can use that guide as a reference point for where to where to place the text and right there you can see that looks pretty even right there so I'll leave that as it is and once we've done that I'll click on that text and I'll finalize it by going to path object to path and now I'm gonna do the same thing with the bottom half of the text I'm gonna click on this I'm gonna hold shift click on the circle and go to text put on path and let me click off with the deselect everything I want to click on just the circle click it again to get the rotation handles and just rotate it around down to here and if you notice the text is going around the outside of the circle we want the text going on the inside of the circle so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click on the flip horizontally flip the selected objects horizontally button go ahead and click that and it's gonna put the text on the inside of the circle there now if you notice the text is layered beneath the circle so I'm sure to click and drag over that text object and raise it to the top with this button right here raise selection to the top and I'll go back to the text tool I'll click on this text item and I just want to add some spacing between the letters just like we did for the previous text and now I want to go back to the Select tool and I want to click on the circle and scale up the circle I'm gonna hold controlling shift and grab this arrow to scale the circle up so that it is overlapping the top row of the text here because we want this text to be running along the same line like that so that's why we do that and once we've done that I could just rotate this around again I'm gonna take this horizontal guide and pull that down here to use that as a reference as you can see it's pretty close but not quite right there it looks like to be the other good spot so I'll click off of that to deselect everything I'm gonna hover my cursor over this horizontal guide until it turns red and once it turns red you could just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of it and what I'll do now is I'll click on the text I'll go to path object to path to finalize that and what I want to do now is create the ribbon down here that the text is gonna be sitting on so we're gonna take this with Inkscape text and I'm going to turn that white and I'm going to take this circle right here and I'm gonna give this a black outline I'm gonna hold shift and click on the color black to give that a black outline I'm gonna get rid of the fill color by clicking the X down here and I'm gonna make this outline thicker I'm gonna come over here to the stroke style tab I'm gonna set these increments to pixels and I'm gonna try something like 50 see how that looks okay maybe that's a little too thick I'll try out twenty-five not quite maybe 35 I'm gonna come up here to where it says when scaling objects scale if stroke width by the same proportion make sure you have that unchecked for this tutorial and I'm just gonna hold ctrl and shift and this circled down a little bit so that the text is sitting evenly in there like that maybe I'll make that a little thicker let's see what 40 looks like maybe scale that down or up a little more just adjust it as needed right there what we're mainly paying attention to is this text in here it doesn't like this text up here doesn't really matter because we're gonna delete the top half of this of this circle so once that's done once you have it set evenly like that maybe I could just increase that a little more that's pretty good once that's done we can finalize this by going to path stroke to path now what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab the Bezier pen which is over here and I'm going to turn on snap to cusp nodes and snap to quadrants we want those two turned on I'm going to snap to the left side of this circle over here or you know what let me see maybe the snapping won't work I'll just bring the cursor to about the left side just outside right here like that click hold ctrl bring the line straight through like that and click again let go of control and just finish the shape going around the outside it doesn't have to be exactly snap to the left edge there just right there it's a pretty good estimate once we've done that we'll grab the select tool hold shift click on the black circle and go to path difference and I could bring the opacity of that all the way up now and what I want to do is go to the edit path by nodes tool and I'm gonna click and drag over these two nodes right here to select them both and I want to put a new node between them so I'll click on this button right here insert new nodes and the selected segments go ahead and click that so there's a new node in there I'll do the same thing right here click and drag over those to insert a new node now let me zoom in on this so I can see it better I'm gonna hold ctrl and roll up the mouse wheel a couple of times and what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna click and drag over this node this new middle node right here then I'll hold shift and click and drag over this new node right here and then I'll just hold ctrl and just click and drag that down click and drag them down a little bit like that so that the we have kind of like that ribbon with like a tail effect there now I'm gonna grab the circles and ellipses tool I'll hold ctrl and shift and create a perfectly round circle like that let me get rid of the outline let me make that like a light shade of grey and I'll hold shift and click on the X to get rid of the outline I'll grab the select tool and put this over here let me hold ctrl and shift to scale it down put this right about there like that I'll make that white and then I'll duplicate that actually I'm gonna make that a little smaller that looks pretty good that over here I'll duplicate that by hitting ctrl D hold ctrl bring this straight across over here put another one on this side hold shift click on the other circle and go to path Union so that they're both unified and then hold shift and click on the black ribbon and Center it up on the vertical axis like that so that it's nice and evenly spaced in there and now we can click off of that to deselect everything and let me press 1 on the keyboard to zoom back out to a hundred percent the next step in here would be to put these little lines these little design accent pieces little lines in there so to do that I'm going to grab the bezzie a pen and I'm gonna start this line I'm gonna start this point inside of this circle right here and click hold ctrl bring this straight up to about there go ahead and click and then press ENTER on the keyboard to finish that and what I'm gonna do is I'm going to make the width of this maybe 2 pixels I'll go with 2 and for the cap we want a round cap and I'm gonna go to the Select tool now I'm gonna take this and bring this outside of the circle to move the page around I'm just pressing down the mouse wheel and moving the mouse I'm gonna make a duplicate of this so I'm gonna hit control D on the keyboard to create a duplicate and then hold ctrl and just bring this over here and I'm gonna go to the edit pads by nodes tool and take this top node right here and just click and drag it down and just hold ctrl just to make it a little shorter like that and I'll make the width of this 3 pixels now I'm gonna grab this squares and rectangles tool I'm gonna create a square going over this shape right here let me just make that red so you can actually see it you grab this select tool so I can adjust the size of it a little bit put that right about there like that hit ctrl D to duplicate that and put this one down here like that and then hold shift and click on the other red shape so we haven't both selected and go path Union then hold shift click on the line Center it up on the vertical and horizontal axis like that and then go to path cut path click off with the deselect everything and we could take this little segment right here and press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of that same thing with oops one one grab this little segment right here press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of that and what we could do now is click and drag over this all three of those little dashes right there and go to path combined and I want to bring the opacity of that down in half same thing with this line I want to click that line bring the opacity down in half let me move this other segment out of the way I'm going to take this line right here now and I'm gonna click on it again to get the rotation handles and I'm gonna hold ctrl on the keyboard and while holding ctrl on the keyboard you could rotate it around like this and I'm gonna bring it back to the starting point I'm going to press down the spacebar to create a copy and I'm gonna rotate it clockwise one step and press the spacebar again to create more copies and I'm going to go around in a clockwise manner and just keep stamping copies with the spacebar while holding ctrl the entire time until we get something like this and what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna click and drag over all of that and go to path combine and I'm gonna do the same thing over here I'm gonna take this one click on it again to get the rotation handles hold ctrl and just press the spacebar to create to stamp some copies like that going in a clockwise way or counterclockwise doesn't really matter just as long as you get those even the even spacing between all of them and then I'll click and drag over all of those and again go to path combined and then I'll hold shift and click on this grouping of objects so we have them both selected and I'm going to Center them up on the vertical and horizontal axis and then click off but to deselect everything so what I want to do now is grab this group right here the outer the the larger group click on it again to get the rotation handles and just without holding ctrl just rotate it around a little bit like this until it's evenly spaced with the other objects now we can click and drag over both of those and group them together with this button that says group selected objects and put this over up here towards the center let me turn off the snapping for now put that roughly in the center right there I'm gonna hold shift and click on the ribbon and then Center it up on the vertical axis click off it did deselect everything and now I can click on this and I can ungroup them like that so they're back to being two separate objects and what I'm going to do now is I'm gonna create that little star for the center here so I'm going to grab these stars and polygons tool and up here from this toolbar we want star instead of regular polygons selected five corners spoke ratio 0.375 and rounded and randomized both set to zero and then we could hold ctrl on the keyboard and click and drag straight up like that to create a nice star just like that let me go to the Select tool let me convert this to a path by going to path object to path maybe I'll make this a little smaller and what I want to do now is grab the bezzie a pen and I want to enable snapping again I want to turn that back on and I want to also enable right here where it says snap to an item's rotation Center so that'll make it so that we can snap to the center point of an object and I'm gonna start at this point right here click bring the line up into the center point of the star until it's snap so then click and they come to this corner down here and then back to the starting point and make that blue hold shift click the X to get rid of the outline so we end up with the shape like that I'm gonna do the same thing to each of these other four legs when I start at this point snap it to the center down here back to the starting point make it blue hold shift click the X to get rid of the black outline and we'll do the same thing for the rest of these sides and then finally this one over here make that blue hold shift click the X and what we can do now is we can grab the Select tool I'm gonna grab this red star right here and you'll know you have the red star selected when you see this red stripe in the bottom left corner of the screen and I'm gonna hold ctrl and shift and scale this up about that big and then I'm gonna click and drag over just the blue objects right there so we have them selected and I'll go to path Union and then I'll hold shift click on the red star and go to path difference and now I'm gonna hold ctrl and shift and scale this down let me turn off the snapping again so it doesn't get in our way when we're doing what we're about to do next and I'm gonna put this towards the center right here I'm gonna hold shift click on the ribbon and just Center it up on the vertical axis click off it to deselect and I'm just gonna Center it up like that and what I'm gonna do now is I want to create a duplicate of this so I'm gonna hit ctrl ctrl D on the keyboard to create a duplicate I'm gonna make that green and I'll go to path break apart and then path Union and then I'll hold ctrl and shift and scale this one up and make it a lot bigger maybe about that big and now I'll duplicate that again by hitting ctrl D and I'll hold shift and I'll click on this larger grouping of lines right here and go to path cut path and it may take a few seconds for your computer to process this depending on how fast your processor is but once it's done you should end up with something like that you can click off to deselect everything and I'm gonna take this remaining green star I'll hold shift and now I'll click on this smaller grouping of lines and I'll do the same thing I'll go to path cut path and we're going to end up with the same result so let me click off let's deselect everything I'm gonna zoom in on this area now and I'm just gonna go and take these lines that got cut off and just click and drag them and just delete them one by one you can just click them and press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of them just like that you're pressed one of the keyboard to zoom back out to a hundred percent I'm gonna take this star I'm gonna make that black and I'm just going to click and drag over everything and bring the opacity all the way up click off with the deselect everything and as you can see we've pretty much finished our design we've created the star in the center with this makeshift I guess you can call like a light burst or a starburst coming out of it one last thing you might want to do is if you want to have some negative space here within this ribbon is you can click and drag you actually can click on the text and hold shift and click on the circles right there and ungroup them and then go to path Union and hold shift and click on the black ribbon and go to path difference and then you can click off and deselect everything and as you can see we are finished we have created our vintage style circular ribbon logo using Inkscape so if you haven't done so already consider joining the logos by nic mailing list to receive email alerts when new tutorials are posted your information will be sold to or shared with anyone else and you will never receive any kind of spam or promotional offers from me in fact the only time you will ever hear from me is when new tutorials are posted and you'll get to watch them on the logos by nic website without ads so check the link in the description for that information if you're interested in that and as always thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Logos By Nick

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Keywords: inkscape, inkscape tutorial, inkscape logo design, vintage logo design, nick saporito, logos by nick, logosbynick

Id: 3xjXd5EPcsQ

Length: 19min 1sec (1141 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 27 2018