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Category Archives: Logo design
Your logo as a design element
Generally speaking, a logo, once designed, should be used in a consistent manner and never altered — same typography, same colors, same enclosing space, and so on. We illustrate this in article 0604, which features United Parcel Service’s guidelines for … Continue reading




