Drawing a Logo Using LaTeX

Introduction

Logos are often used by a body or institution to introduce his identity. Logos usually take the form of a particular image or sketch which has its own meaning for the body or institution that uses it. Generally, to create logos, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw or applications that provide logo templates such as Canva are used. What about $\LaTeX$, can it be used to draw a logo? Of course, with the PGFPlot or TikZ packages already available in $\LaTeX$, we can draw a logo. Whether a logo is good or not is certainly influenced by many factors, one of which is the creativity of the creator. Now we will discuss the steps in drawing a logo using $\LaTeX$.

Typeface

The font types used in this guide are: FrontPage-Bold.ttf, Quicksand-Bold.ttf, and TlwgTypist-Bold.otf. You can download it on the page https://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/frontpage-bold/ and on the page https://linux.thai.net/pub/thailinux/software/fonts-tlwg/. Place the letter file in the same folder as the document file created.

Preamble

In the preamble, we write down the packages needed and also the literature. As an example, you can see the following code.

\documentclass[border=3]{article}\usepackage {tikz}\usetikzlibrary {decorations.text,calc}\usepackage{fontspec}\setmainfont{FrontPage-Bold.ttf}\newfontfamily\quick{Quicksand-Bold.ttf}\newfontfamily\tlwg{TlwgTypist-Bold.otf}

Drawing Logos

To draw a logo using $\LaTeX$, here I use the TikZ package in the preamble. And in the body of the document, I will create a logo in the form of several circles with different colors. For details, see the following command code.

\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\fill[green!50](0,0) circle (3.7);\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}

The first circle created is green, and later inside the circle I will write two texts as identities separated by a blue horizontal line. For example, the following command.

\node[font=\tlwg\fontsize{17}{17}\selectfont,black] at (0,0)  {www.silagebra.com};\draw[line width=3.5pt,blue](-3.6,-0.5)--(3.6,-0.5);\node[font=\tlwg\fontsize{12}{12}\selectfont,black] at (0.05,-1) {seni tipografi matematika};

Then I creates several more circles using the following command.

\draw[red!70, line width=8pt] (0,0) circle (4);\draw[blue!60, line width=5pt] (0,0) circle (4.3);\draw[line width=3pt] (0,0) circle (4.5);

The final result of the document after being compiled will produce the following image.

Closing

That’s how to draw a logo using $\LaTeX$. Of course there are many other logos that can be drawn using LaTeX. Your creativity as a LaTeX user certainly determines the layout of the logo you draw. I hope this is helpful.