Logo design for social media blog

Hello Mr Miracle!

This is a decent start, but there are a few issues which stop me from giving the logo a better star rating.

1. Typography. The typography is not very good. First off, if you want a bold font it is better to use one designed to be bold, then make a slim font bold. I think this is what you've done, because looking at the letters, they look very tight and very uncomfortable. It is almost like looking at a load of fat people in a lift....! But seriously, look at the S for example, the ends are touching the middle. That's not good, and you can see the same problem with the "a". The end result is a logo that is difficult to read, so a re-think on the font is essential.
2. Colours. First off, every time I see people design fonts, they put this gradient background underneath which I think makes logos look better than they really do. You're not likely to have that background when it's placed on the site, and you certainly couldn't use it to print B&W. It'd be nice to see how nice the logo still looks when it's used in context.
3. The "gr". What is this? What's it for? Is it part of the web address? This bit confuses me, I'm not sure why it's there...
4. The tag line. It's cheeky, and I like tongue in cheek. But the capital letters and the strict looking font make it look too serious. If you're going to put in a cheeky line like that, I think the font needs to be cheeky too. I just think that although I get it, and others will too...some people won't.
5. Don't add any "styles" to this logo. When you sort out the font and the other issues I've raised, I think it'd look decent as it is.

I agree with most of Gunner's comments. The 2 biggest distractors that I see in this design is the lack of space within each letter (eg, there is hardly any white space under the top of the a and in the middle of the a; the dot on the i is too close to it's stem), and the colors. You should definitely select a thinner font that is more legible, and also tighten up the get a life tag.

As for the colors, I don't have a problem with the magenta-ish that you have chosen, but it is a bold color that is conflicting for dominance with the dark gray quotes. I'd either scale down the quotes so the socialhood text stands out more, or choose a lighter gray so they aren't so dominant.

I'd also arrange the right quote so that the gr bottom aligns with the bottom of social hood text to imply that it's all part of the domain.

nice and clean very smart

I have to agree with Gunner's comments...

1. Font - not so great, research a different font, find the bold version of it, and adapt it to your way... remember if the logo is to be typographical make it memorable, by taking a font and adapting it so that not every Tom, Dick and harry can rip it off!
2. Colors - I like them
3. Quotes - don't like them
4. gr - lose it or explain it
5. GET A LIFE 2.0 - great tagline, make it lowercase.
6. Background color / gradient - lose it

Overall I think this has potential, but that font is so dodgy that readability is absolutely shocking!

I have added a quick mock up, where I have made the "o" in social a cheeky smile... hopefully this will help with the tongue in cheek tagline...

Good Luck!

I don't know why but those apostrophe's are just killing it for me. I really do like this design a whole lot. To me a different symbol or something would work better than apostraphe's.

the l and the h could get blended if logo is too small. I like Get a Life!

Well - What I liked - I like the way you used these both colors and got a good combination Then I liked the font you used for "Get a life 2.0" What I would like to change - The font for social hood is way too bold.

Overall - Really good work :)

I like the colors but would like to see a more stylized or interacting element. A social / communication related object. I agree no gr inside the comma.

one change I would recommend is to unbold the text.

logo is good for start but need to be improved

I like your logo, just couple things,

It looks like you used a stroke around the font to make it bolder, get rid of it, it's creating a little mess

I don't think is necessary the "gr" inside the quotation mark, this is a "comma", it is not a "dot", doesn't make sense if you are talking about the website address, keep it clean,

I would suggest use lower case over the tag line

good work Mr.

It's not too often that I see a concept on this site that I really love. This is one of those concepts. :)

I like the colour combination. It stands out with enough contrast, yet still blends together. I also like the bold font because it flows well with the quotation marks.

The only thing that I found odd was the gr. I understand that this is part of the url, but it seems out of place there. Personally, I'd like the logo better if it wasn't there -- although it's no big issue.

To be honest, I wouldn't do much in the way of shadowing. Sometimes simple is better. Shadows and such may over-complicate a good thing. :)

Overall, I'm impressed. Good job!