{"id":213,"date":"2007-06-02T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T00:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/02\/logos-from-letters\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T17:04:10","slug":"logos-from-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/typography\/logos-from-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Logos from Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/logo-p38.jpg\" title=\"tc logo\" alt=\"tc logo\" align=\"left\" height=\"87\" width=\"38\" \/>Before&amp;After has a pretty good summary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphics.com\/modules.php?name=Sections&amp;op=viewarticle&amp;artid=276&amp;page=3\" title=\"logo from letters\">how to make a logo<\/a> by interlocking, overlaying, or otherwise connecting letters. Though basic, it can be useful as a reminder of some of the possible approaches.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used the cross and orb logo composed of my initials, shown at left, for many years. The cross and orb was a traditional mark of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/printing\/gutenberg.asia\/gutenberg-asia-1-introduction.htm\" title=\"gutenberg and east asian book printing\">printers in Europe during the early Renaissance<\/a>. You can see another example, from the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, <a href=\"http:\/\/spencer.lib.ku.edu\/sc\/ptrsmark.shtml\" title=\"cross and orb logo\">here<\/a>. You can also get a glimpse of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/big-tc-logo.htm\" title=\"tc logo\">a larger version of my mark here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/frozen.rightreading.com\/culture\/2007\/06\/03\/new-sidebar\/\" title=\"new sidebar approach\">New sidebar approach for rightreading html pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before&amp;After has a pretty good summary of how to make a logo by interlocking, overlaying, or otherwise connecting letters. Though basic, it can be useful as a reminder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}