the DUETOLogo Design Contest

These are getting good !!! Thank you so much to everyone participating !!
I think what is going to set the winner apart are these few things ...
1) "the" should be less pronounced and at an angle
2) "D" should be the most pronounced and upright not following the same angle as "the"
3) slogan should either be in my own handwriting as to work with the Dueto OR extremely simple and modern **** see Kelley werstler logo**** to juxtapose
4) the "t" in Dueto that is in first place is the t that I want to use the loop in the other example I gave almost looks like a lowercase f this is very important the loop t in Dueto is driving me crazy !!!
Thank you again and we are getting close !!!

They look like regular fonts .
Ideally I would like the "the" to be placed higher than DUETO... Is there a way to trace my handwriting just fixing the U,e, & o in DUETO ???