We draw logotypes by hand — for metal bands who need something that cuts on a shirt and a backdrop, and for businesses who need one that holds on a storefront and in a browser tab. No stock fonts with a bevel on them. No brief that ends at a JPG.
Business · Tattoo studio
Blackletter drawn by hand, then tuned until it held at door-sign size and at 32 pixels in a browser tab.
Business · Studio software
A brush wordmark with the bite of a tattoo flash sheet — built for an app icon first, everything else second.
Band · Metal
Three words stacked into one silhouette, so it reads on a backdrop from the back of the room and still cuts on a shirt.
Band · Metal
Wide, symmetrical and spiked. One word gets one job: own the centre of the artwork.
Band · Metal
Looser and faster than the rest — a script that keeps its legibility even as the strokes run off the ends.
Business · Web studio
Our own. Two halves, one weight, a single red — the rule the whole site is built on.
A logo is not finished when it looks good on the screen you drew it on. We check every mark at the three sizes it actually has to live at — and keep cutting detail until the smallest one still reads.
Below is the Black Lantern mark at each of them — the wordmark where there is room, and the compact cut where there is not.
Black Lantern
One call. What you sound like, who you're for, and every place the mark has to go — the van, the shirt, the sign, the socials.
Three directions, drawn not picked. You see them in black and white first, because a mark that needs colour to work doesn't work.
Two rounds on the one you pick. Strokes get thicker, gaps get wider, and anything that dies under 32 px comes out.
Vectors, flats, a one-colour version for the printer, a favicon, and a page telling you how to use it. Yours outright.
Logo on its own, or logo and the website it lives on. Tell us which and we'll come back with a price and a date.
