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Threw $350 down the drain on a logo mill service last spring
I paid a budget logo site $350 for a full brand package (thinking it'd save time) but got back generic clip art with my company name slapped on it. The AI didn't even adjust the kerning right. Has anyone had better luck with a specific low-cost designer instead?
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kai83913d ago
Man that sucks. Same thing happened to me last year. Paid $300 for a logo and got a vector with mismatched font weights. Looked like a middle school project. Their AI somehow mashed two different font styles together and called it a day. I was so mad I just stopped using that version completely. Now I only look at actual portfolios on Behance or Dribbble before I pay anyone. Learned the hard way that cheap and fast means generic every single time.
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the_drew14d ago
350 bucks and they couldn't even bother to fix the kerning? That is rough, man, I'm sorry. That is classic logo mill garbage right there, they just slap something together from a template and call it a day. I've seen friends get burned the same way with those cheap "unlimited revisions" deals and still end up with clip art. Honestly, your best bet is to spend that money on a real person who does freelance work on the side. I know a guy who got his whole brand done for like 200 bucks through a student designer on a portfolio site, and it actually looked unique. Skip the middleman AI nonsense and just hire a human who knows what a font letter spacing is.
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taylor_wells14d ago
Man, that's infuriating - try a local art student next time, way cheaper and they actually care about spacing.
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