Band Logo Maker
Type your band name, pick a face and a treatment, and pull down a PNG — transparent if you want it — or the SVG your printer will ask for. Twenty-four display fonts, all open-licence, so the logo is yours to put on shirts and sell.
A screen printer will ask for the SVG — it has no resolution, so it stays sharp at any size, from a badge to a backdrop. The big PNG is for anywhere that will not take vector.
Free to use commercially — see the licensing note below.
What it makes
Made with this tool and nothing else — one from each corner of it. Click one to open it in the editor above with your own name on it.
Logo makers by genre
Making a band logo that works
A logo has a harder job than a poster. It has to survive being shrunk to a circle on a streaming profile, stitched onto a patch, screen-printed in one colour, and stamped on a kick drum — and it has to stay recognisably yours in all four. That rules out most of what looks good on a big screen.
Test it small before anything else
Shrink your logo until it is about a centimetre wide and look at it. If you cannot tell what it says, or it turns into a grey smudge, it will fail on a profile picture and on a patch. Thinner faces and busier treatments go first.
One colour, then decide about the rest
Screen printing charges per colour and patches are usually one or two. A logo that only works in full colour is a logo you cannot afford to put on anything. Everything here renders as flat ink on a flat ground for that reason — pick the transparent option and you can drop it onto whatever you like.
Match the genre, then break it deliberately
Genre conventions exist because they communicate fast: blackletter reads as black metal before anyone has read a word, block capitals read as hardcore. Following them is not lazy, it is functional. Ignoring them is fine too, as long as it is a decision rather than an accident.
Get the vector before you order anything
The PNG is fine for a profile picture and useless to a screen printer. Hit Download SVG and you get a real vector file — no resolution, so it is as sharp on a backdrop as on a badge, and it is what a printer, an embroiderer or a sign maker will ask you for. The letters are converted to outlines rather than left as text, which means no font is embedded, the file opens on a machine that has never heard of these typefaces, and there is nothing in it anyone needs a licence for.
The only thing the SVG will not carry is the distressed grain. That effect is speckle punched through the pixels themselves and there is no honest way to draw it as vector, so the SVG comes out clean.
Can I sell shirts with this?
Yes. All twenty-four faces are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 or Apache License 2.0. Both licences place no restriction whatsoever on the output — the image you download is yours, commercially and otherwise. The restriction in those licences is on redistributing the font files as fonts, which is not something this tool does or lets you do.
One thing worth knowing that is not a licensing question: a logo you generate is not distinctive enough to register as a trade mark, because anyone else can generate a similar one. If you get to the point of registering a mark, that is the point to pay someone to draw you a real one.
Got a name yet?
If you are still deciding, the band name generator will give you two dozen to pick from, and the name checker tells you whether the one you like is already taken. Once you have a logo, the gig poster maker puts it on a show poster.
Questions
Is the band logo maker free?
Yes — no account, no trial, no charge for the file.
Can I use the logo on merch I sell?
Yes. Every font here is SIL Open Font License or Apache 2.0, and neither restricts what you do with the rendered output. You own the logo you make. What you cannot do is redistribute the font files themselves as fonts.
Can I download the logo as a vector or SVG?
Yes, free. Download SVG gives you a true vector with the letters converted to outlines — sharp at any size, opens anywhere, and the file a screen printer will actually ask for. The distressed grain is the one thing it cannot carry.
Can I use my own colours?
Yes. Six palettes to start from and two colour pickers for everything else. Choosing a palette fills the pickers in, so you can start from one and nudge it.
Can I get a logo with a transparent background?
Yes — tick transparent background. That is what you want for putting the logo over a photo or onto a shirt that is not black.
Will this make a proper death metal logo?
Not the illegible hand-drawn kind. Those are bespoke lettering and no font can do it. This gets you a strong, readable mark for a demo, a first run of shirts or a Bandcamp header.
What size should a band logo be?
Square 1200×1200 for profile pictures, wide 1600×900 for headers and merch, banner 1500×500 for covers. Check it still reads at thumbnail size whichever you pick.
Do I need to install anything?
No — it runs in the browser and the only download is the logo.