• US$250

• 67 designs

• 14 designers

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Logo Design Brief

I need a logo for my pen name, Alyssa Everett. I write romance novels set in England during the regency period (1811-1820), the era before Queen Victoria-think Lord Byron, Napoleon Bonaparte and most of all Jane Austen. Regency romances typically feature wealthy, aristocratic heroes and elegant settings. Regency readers are picky about historical detail so any pictorial elements used need to reflect the proper time period (i.e., no anachronisms like hoop skirts). The final design should suggest writing/fiction but also the regency subgenre.

The logo should include some kind of pictorial element. Since I know this is not a high-budget project, silhouettes are fine as long as the graphic is recognizable. Some possible suggestions, though I don't want to limit creativity:
- Human figure in regency costume, especially male
- Costume items like topboots (riding boots), beaver hat (a kind of curly-brimmed top hat), or regency bonnet
- Items that suggest a regency setting such as a candelabra or country house (the Downton Abbey sort)

To evoke the regency period yet still work for easy readability, fonts I like include clean but slightly antique script (examples would be Diplomat or Daisy Lau) or something suggestive of an early 1800s typesetter's font (like Broadsheet or ITC Oldbook Italic OsF). Alternatively, I believe my publisher uses Trajan on my book covers (see the file attached for example). Again, I don't want to limit creativity, so these are just suggestions. The important thing is to suggest regency historical fiction.

Industry/Entity Type

House

Logo Text

Alyssa Everett

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Logo styles of interest

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Look and feel

Each slider illustrates characteristics of the customer's brand and the style your logo design should communicate.

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Requirements

Must have

• Some kind of pictorial element should be included with the text.

Nice to have

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Should not have

• No carriages or quill pens due to overuse in the genre
  No men with Fabio hair or shirts falling off
  No specifically Napoleonic/military elements
  Avoid Gothic/Old English blackletter fonts since they suggest an earlier historical period.

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