Logo maker

Make a logo, not an illustration. The subject is reduced to a symbol that survives being shrunk to the size of a favicon, and everything that does not survive that is cut before it is drawn.

Two things decide whether the result is any good, and neither is style: what is left out, and whether the silhouette reads as one shape.

Pick the path first

There are two ways to produce the artwork, and the choice is made once, before any design work:

• An image generator is available — use it. Follow prompt.md, which turns the design rules into a prompt and lists what to reject on the way back.
• No image generator — author the mark as SVG. Follow vector.md. The output is a file the project can keep, diff and re-export, which is often the better answer for a product that already has a repository.