Kate's DatesLogo Design Contest

Yeah, so, I'm a dude—and I STILL want a T-shirt with this on it!
Cool, clean, modern approach with a little throwback font. Hope you dig it.
Your feedback, input, requests are always welcomed...unlike most of your dates. (Wah-wah)
~Geoff (A-ha)

#60 and #61 -- Options. Maybe you can use the hot-pink typewriter emoticons as kind of a rating system...

#64 -- snarky devil's tail on the heart...

I love the retro typewriter font mixed w the hot pink emoticons! When I was trying to think of logos on my own, I was looking for typewriter fonts and MS Office doesn't have it. Can you make the font black in #61 and #58? I like them the best because it has the tag line in there.

Thanks so much for these!

My pleasure!
As you requested: #73 and #74

ALSO: #75 is #64 with the tag.
Thanks!
~Geoff

Hi, Kate.
If you want to see some color options or some tweaks, just holla!
Thanks,
~G

wondering what if it would be too much to have both the :( and the </3 so that the logo looks something like

:( Kate's Dates </3
w the tagline underneath...

your design is giving me lots of ideas for how/where i can use it. i also like the fact that because it's a simple font and emoticons, somehow it's more gender neutral. even though my target audience is women, i don't want to alienate the guys and your logo does that really well.

Sweet! I'll start now on a version like you requested. Let's see where it goes!
(Also know this -- the contest winner can send you multiple versions.)

I didn't know the contest winner could provide multiple versions... Good to know!

#111 as requested.
Best of both worlds? What do you think...yay? Nay?

I think I like #111 with both the :( and </3

Coolio! Thanks for the ranking. Let me know if you want further revisions, tweaks, etc.
~Geoff

#123 - A purple version
#124 - A vertical (stacked) version)

I like the stacked version #124. I think that would look good as the main picture on the facebook page. I was actually going to ask for something like this... you read my mind!

Cool -- I can tinker with making the tag one line or whatever.
If you want to see something specific, please just ask!
~G

If you have ideas for different configurations or how to incorporate the logo, emoticons, and tag line into a facebook page or website, let me know.

The logo will be used on the facebook page, twitter account, KatesDates.com (which isn't even up and running yet), Kate-Book.com... pretty much anywhere I post Kate's Dates-related content.

The first and most obvious idea is to use one of the emoticons (the hot pink frowny or broken heart) as your website flavicon -- the little 'button' that shows up beside the website name when you bookmark a site or page.

Another idea: Create a ranking system... REALLY bad date: </3</3</3</3

Sorry. Hit 'enter' too soon... wasn't done : )
GARDEN VARIETY BAD: </3</3 or : ( : ( (2 Frownie points)
OR
LIKED HIM, HE HATED ME: </3</3</3</3
UBERCRAP DATE: : ( : ( : ( : (
BORED TO TEARS date: :' [
REAL LOSER: ( * )
I mean, you can see where all to go with it.

More ideas to come...

frownie points... holy crap, i actually cracked up over that one. so many possibilities!!

Can you do it on a black background with white writing and hot pink emoticons? I'm looking through different website templates and I want to see what the logo would look like in white text.

Take it! It's yours. "Frownie Points." Love it.
Yes -- will do a reverse version against black.
Also -- two new entries coming: a custom emoticon just fro Kate's broken heart...

#128 and #129 -- the custom eKatiecon

#130 - "Reversed" version (light against dark).

#131 -- lowercase k and d option

#130 reversed option looks great!
#131 is good but I like it better with the upper case for the first letter

I like the idea behind #128 and #129. Some kind of abbreviated emoticon to use as an icon. Maybe it's just the font you're using but it almost looks like a "K" and a "B" in hacker style writing because of the "/" in front of the 3...

Yeah -- I see the B now, too. Eh, worth a shot. I think the ones in the logo will work better.
(Just checked out your Facebook page [finally]. You're hysterical! Love your writing style
and wit. I married 20 years (blow dart me, please?), but looks like the dating scene still
bites as much as it ever did. Afraid I might've been missing out on something.

By the way -- feel free to put any of my entries in the NOT INTERESTED column if you're sure they're not contenders. I can do some house cleaning and withdraw them.

Typo-fest above. Please forgive "I married" playing the role of "I'm married." And, the what-the-hell-is-that-doing-there open parenthesis before "Just..." Not sure if blow dart is a single word or hyphenated.
Rambling completed. *drops mic*

haha... no worries. I got the jist of what you were trying to say...

can you do something like #129 but with the emoticon in the same typerwriter-esque font? Maybe it won't look quite so much like a "B"

I can always use the </3 broken heart symbol as my logo but it would be cool to have something that looks like a "K" and a "D" or a "K" and a heart...

Hi, K8.
How about something like #133...?

#134 -- a little different ratio: size relationship between icon and type.
~G

I think #134 has the more harmonious balance (weight and ratio).

Well -- now I'm not so sure. #134 and #135 -- it's a toss up. (Unless you hate 'em both!)

I meant #133 and #134. s o r r y

I prefer the font you used in #124. The font in #133 and #134 looks like a less retro font ( like dot matrix printers from the 90s instead of a typewriter)

Gotcha. Lemme see what I can do...

#135 and #136.