Free Line Logo Maker

Is a Line Logo Right for You?

The AI logo generator from GraphicSprings is a great tool for creating a line logo. This logo style presents a very specific look using simple lines. And it’s a look that can change with a small action, like the thickness of the line.

• Thin, delicate lines give your line logo a light, elegant feeling.
• Thicker lines can lean toward a more modern output.

Because of line variations like this, when you are developing your line logo in the AI-powered logo generator, you will want to be as clear with feeling and style as you are about what the lines are representing. 

Popular Line Logo Icons

A line logo is more of a style. With some logos you are using set chapes or icons to create your brand identity. With a line logo you have a greater amount of freedom because the fluidity of the lines allows you to move beyond a standard icon library.

Even with that freedom from traditional icons, there are certain designs that seem to be more popular in this line-art style. Those include classic business icons like:

• Houses
• Buildings
• Mountains
• Trees

As well as objects that be given a modern twist as a line logo like:

• Bicycles
• Cars

You can also develop a line logo that doesn’t center around any particular “type” of icon representation and instead builds on geometric shapes and images.

Some popular logos use lines to create a design that can be seen different ways by different people. For instance, if you had a holiday-themed store you could use the AI generator to develop a line logo that incorporated elements of major holidays like the Fourth of July, Christmas, Easter, Memorial Day, and so on. The logo might look like a storefront but a closer examination will show that the details in the line drawing of the store are where you will find all of those holiday elements.

No matter what you choose to include in your line logo, it’s important that you keep it simple. It can be easy for your design to go from a couple of buildings to a full city or from a tree to a forest. While that might look nice as a design, it may be difficult to be understood as a logo. Particularly when it is shrunk down. You want to make sure that the eyes of the customer can follow the design of your line logo without any major confusion.

Top Colors for Line Logo Design

Because of their simplistic nature, line logos will typically follow one of three color schemes.

1. Black and white
2. Brand coloring
3. Brown

Think of the Coca-Cola logo. It uses simple typographic line art in the iconic Coke red. Could you see it in blue or green? Maybe as a one-off for a special promotion but if you just saw it “out in the wild” it wouldn’t feel right.

Brown as well as black and white line drawings are popular because the use of simple colors allows the focus of the viewer to be on the detail of the line work in the logo. A line logo done is stark black and white conveys an artistic sophistication. A line logo in shades of brown would be a great icon for a nature-based business.

Trusted Font Choices for Line Logos

The best font to use in your line logo is often your designated brand font. Often a line logo can be somewhat abstract and so using branded fonts helps to connect the customer to the company behind the icon.

Other fonts can be used in your company line logo but they should still be both brand friendly and complimentary to the overall design of the logo.

Line Logo Ideas That Work

There is a versatility and diversity a line logo has that many other types of logo do not. That’s because the line is not constrained by a secondary shape (like a circle) or any specific category (like medical equipment) in this style of logo. This versatility gives line logos a particular freedom that can be expressed in a number of different ways.

Some great examples of companies who use line logos as their primary corporate branding (or company icon) include:

• Versace – The fashion brand has a somewhat complicated but also completely appropriate line logo drawing rendition of Medusa in their logo. Its’ detailed, yet not busy. And interesting because it doesn’t directly speak to the name of the brand or what they do. The company allows the icon to stand on its’ own and yet the lines that make it do a remarkable job of telling their brand story.
• Innocent – Two lines, two dots. There is a beauty in its simplicity. this line logo also stands out because it looks like a couple of simple, hand-drawn lines which speaks to the feeling of home their products provide.
• Tour de France – There are some great reasons why this line logo works so well. 90% of the line is simply the name. The line representing the R has been bent slightly to take the shape of a bike rider. Their bike is a bright yellow circle that has been added behind the letters. All of these elements work together in this well-designed line logo to let you know exactly what they do.

A strong line logo can be used to artistically tell the story of the company. In just a few short lines, you can convey a lot about what a customer can expect.