VicRic

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Hi,

could you recommend any graphic design software, specifically for logo design?

I don't have any preference about the platform - Mac, Linux or Windows would do.

Actually I don't have a Mac but I heard they are planning to bring down prices during this Xmas season, and if the best software for logo design runs on a Mac I might finally take a dive into the Mac world.

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p.s. BTW, how about your favorite Web Design software?

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I believe the closest thing you'll find to a full featured FLOSS logo design suite would be Inkscape. It's designed for vector graphics, so it'll work fine for logos.

As for web design, all I use is good old notepad (although any other plain text editor would be fine) and (primary) Firefox. There are countless extensions designed for web design for Firefox as well, I've never tried them thought.

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I don't know anything specific for logos, but I recommend inkscape as well. It can work on linux and win, don't know about mac.

For web, just pick a good text editor, 99% of the people here is going to give you the same advice. If you like to draw webs rather than program them then you can try nvu which is some kind of dreamweaber clone. I never used it so I don't know how it works (or doesn't).

jlinkels

If you come from the Windows world, there is a tool for thit, a tool for that, one program for business cards, one for invitations, one for birthday cards, one for web graphics, one for logos, and so on and so on. And they are all tryware, shareware, spyware, crackware or payware or whatever.

They sometimes do a good job, but often one can tell that a graphic was designed with such and such a program.

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Really, if you want to design something with geometric shapes, easy distribution and alignment, adding text & colors, manipulate lines etc, I can recommend Inkscape. It has no steep learning curve (especially not if you know CorelDraw) and once you are familiar with it, you can design as fast as in any package.

If you come from Corel, the user interface may appear oversimplified to you. Don't let that deceive you, Inkscape does things differently sometimes, and you might need 3 (well controlled) steps where Corel does it in one. But it is in any aspect as powerful, and often I have demonstrated Corel users that anything in Corel is possible in Inkscape.

So a firm recommendation for Inkscape.

jlinkels

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I recommend inkscape, it's not specifically for logos, but it's the best program I know for this task.