Free Gaming Logo Maker

Is a Gaming Logo Right For You?

You might need a gaming logo if you are starting an esports team, opening a game cafe, starting a game design company, hosting an esports event, or founding a gaming club at school. A strong gaming logo can be a fun way to help people to visually recognize what you do. For example using an 8-bit design for your gaming logo presents your group in a fun, welcoming light. A darker, more moody logo though is a way to tell people that you are more serious gamers.

Popular Gaming Logo Icons

There are a number of different icons that you should consider using when designing your gaming logo.

If you are focused on game consoles or digital games, you might consider adding to your logo design an icon of:

• A controller
• A game system
• A VR headset
• An avatar of popular game characters
• Game cartridges
• A high score log

If your logo is going to represent your love of board games or a gaming cafe you might want to include:

• A gameboard
• Player tokens
• Dice
• A “rule book” open to a specific page

And if you are focused on one specific game, you should feature icons that allude to that. For example, if you are starting a game club that is all things Mario perhaps consider icons of gold coins, pipes, mystery blocks and mushrooms in your gaming logo.

Top Colors For a Gaming Logo Design

The colors you choose for your gaming logo will set the stage to help people understand the types of games you are involved in and what they can expect from the organization.

If you are creating an 8-bit gaming logo you might want to use strong blocks of primary colors like blue, red, orange, and green.

Gaming logos for more modern-day, multiplayer games tend to use darker blues, blacks, and greys.

Board game cafes and other groups focused on physical games often use muted Earth tones like tan and forest green in their gaming logo.

Trusted Font Choices for Gaming Logos

Before you select a font to use with your gaming logo. take a minute to log all of the things you want your logo to represent. Then work to find a font that represents those in the best way. Some gaming fonts to consider are –

• Knight Warrior
• Robus
• Super Pixel
• Space Nova
• Steelar

Gaming Logo Ideas that Work

A great source of inspiration for your gaming logo will of course by the games you love to play. It can also be a good idea to look at the logos of other companies in the gaming industry. In some cases you can take a page out of their book in terms of what works. You can also use this exercise to see what design choices you should avoid.

• The Xbox logo does a great job of using visual continuity. The main icon in the logo is the X over a globe. The symbol is not just used in the logo but as the power button on their devices. It creates instant recognition with even the most casual gamers.
• Evil Geniuses is an esports organization. Their gaming logo takes stylized versions of their initials and places them together in a way that indicates a power button. It’s a nice nod to what they do – gaming – and how they do it – powerfully.
• Friday Night Funkin’ is a music game with a notable logo. In the spirit of the game, the logo is a piece of graffiti art with a little technical icon that dots the I. It’s interesting because it is so different and in the way that it so perfectly captures the vibe of playing the game.