20 Simple But Professional Grayscale Logos
When designing a logo, I always design in grayscale, and then move on to adding color. This is because a logo doesn’t need to rely on color to make it stand out from the crowd. The most important bit is that it looks good in all colors, including black and white.
Here is my compiled showcase of logos that look very professional, but have a very simplistic design. Let me know what one you think is the best, and if you have found anymore that deserve to be on the list. Thanks to LogoPond, LogoFaves and LogoSpire for showcasing these logos on your site.
Mr. Cutts
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Reel Farm
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Duke & Winston
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Sync
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Martini House
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Egg n Spoon
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33 Blocks
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Gargoyle
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LionAd
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Evolution X
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Femina
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Pause
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Cinema Cafe
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CATS
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Pro Motion
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Dark Bird Studios
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Greentree Pictures
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Branding
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Logomotive
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Highroad
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Mkk (2 years ago)
Wow… Amazing work, great collection.
Osvaldas (2 years ago)
Egg n Spoon reminds me… Internet Explorer logo a lot. Am I the only one?
Andy (2 years ago)
Got me too.
dani (2 years ago)
me too
IgniteWebsites (5 months ago)
yes. Egg & Spoon at first glance reminded me of IE. Took me a moment to see the negative space egg and spoon.
dan (2 years ago)
some very clever logos.
designfollow (2 years ago)
great collection
Shaun Dunne (2 years ago)
egg n spoon gets me every time. Love it.
h1brd (2 years ago)
Uau, some of them have brilliant creative concepts, amazing.
Sanjay Kumar (2 years ago)
Excellent Grayscale Logos. I Liked the Branding and egg n spoon logos.
info@designinformer.com (2 years ago)
Nice logos! I love logo inspirations!
I really like the Sync logo.
Roni Gomes (2 years ago)
Amazing!
Very creative!
I liked all!
BR
Samoo (2 years ago)
Awesome! Saved in my favs immediately.
Alenchik (2 years ago)
Wow these are real awesome.. so creative! I wish I cold come up with stuff like this.
Nikunj Tamboli (2 years ago)
Simple but innovative & creative done a great job
Vaultofheaven (2 years ago)
I like them all too. I was wondering though about the Cats/womens shoes one though. . A line of shoes for snarky ladies?:)
Vin Thomas (2 years ago)
Nice stuff!
elizaveta efimova (2 years ago)
fantastic!
Martini House, Evolution, and Pause are soooooo great.
Dwyndal (2 years ago)
I love this write up and the collection of logos goes very well with your first paragraph. If it’s not powerful with black and white then it won’t shine with color.
Ty for the post
rebeldesigner (2 years ago)
you should add my logo as well… it is also greyscale… http://tweetphoto.com/juulavdm (well still in the process)
Andy (2 years ago)
Nice, I like the sketch effect.
illustrokes (2 years ago)
great work!
Nelson Martin (2 years ago)
Really nice examples here!
Matt (2 years ago)
Excellent examples of stellar logos! Great job & thanks for posting!
LukeSF (2 years ago)
Loooove B&W logos… Some are real masterpieces which are traveling the Net from site to site…
Weby Life (1 year ago)
every logo should look good in B&W. This post exactly tells you why it should look that way
Antwon Davis (1 year ago)
I love how all of these logos convey not only the name of the company, but the expression of the company. Merging design and typography is a favorite of mine. Simple. Clean.
Thanks for posting.
Mike Erickson (1 year ago)
Thanks for the post and the add.
ME
Carlos (1 year ago)
Egg n Spoon has an amazing concept.
Azib (6 months ago)
It was nice post. I want to know how to make good and easy logos in vector graphics? Is there any idea how to make it. I tried inkscape for making logos but I didn;t accomplished what I was looking for. I just need a simple and easy logo in Vector Graphic.