Every once in a while you need to create your own logo, maybe for a poster, flyer or custom t-shirt, and while there are plenty of online logo generators out there (just search and you’ll get vast results), they don’t give you quite the same amount of control and creativity that you can get from using a an image editor like GIMP to create your own custom logo.
Using GIMPs built in scripts to create a custom logo
GIMP has a few simple ways to augment your text and one of the best ways to get started is by using GIMPs built-in Alpha to logo maker/creator scripts. You can access them by opening the menu by clicking File/Create/Logos. Here you’ll find almost 30 different logo style to choose from. However, GIMP doesn’t show you a basic preview so you sort of have to guess or create logos using trial and error. Not very much fun and sort of a waste of time. You can find some general previews in the GIMP manual in chapter 2 on Text under the section: Embellishing Text but it’s not really detailed enough.
With that said, this is why we assembled a sample list of all of the logo styles below that GIMP offers thanks to GIMPs various Script-Fus. Note that each logo style presented below can be modified and adjusted as much as you want since we’re just demonstrating the basic style using the default settings for each logo style.
3D Outline
Alien Glow
Alien Neon
Basic I
Basic II
Blended
Bovination
Carved
Chalk
Chip Away
Chrome
Comic Book
Cool Metal
Crystal
Frosty
Glossy
Glowing Hot
Gradient Bevel
Imigre-26
Neon
Newsprint Text
Particle Trace
SOTA Chrome
Speed Text
Starscape
Text Circle
Textured
Web Title Header
