Logo reccomendations: Vile impregnation, craniotomy, infantectomy, chainsaw castration, visceral disgorge, wolves in the throne room, 10 TO THE CHEST, Labyrinthus Stellarum, and begging for incesr are all very illegible and I reccomend them to you!
The only one I recognize here is Wolves in the Throne Room, and I happen to have reviewed that one already (DML Ep.5). I'll keep all of these in mind, thanks!
i feel one that could be added is a "symbols/objects as letters". like when bands use a pentagram or the noise not music symbol as an O, the inverted cross or sword T, the logo for "forbidden tomb" has a axe for the f and n. i notice people get tripped up on those type of things in logos
Good point! This hasn't come into play yet because I haven't really reviewed any logos that employ that technique, but absolutely worth considering. Thanks for the suggestion!
Love it! Need to take a more detailed watch of this as I was having it on while I work but I think it could do with an "intent" category and this would either boost or negate certain other aspects in the rating system. I understand this would require either guess work, research or a talk with each designer but I believe it could be beneficial. For example, a logo may aim to look trashy so certain legibility scores should be adjusted for that or some logos may intend to look organic and certain inaccuracies may be beneficial for that. I'll edit my comment if I come up with more feedback or DM ya. Keep killing it!
That's a point I had not considered. As you said, I think it would be difficult to quantify aspects in that category... but it's definitely worth keeping in mind. On the other hand, an objective legibility score may not need to account for a designer or artist's intent. I'll have to give it some more thought. Thanks for the feedback! :)
great idea, really looking forward to whatever happens to it and whichever way it progresses ^^ (also somewhat related - I'm following a lot of goregrind/gorenoise labels and there's recently been a trend of these kinds of bands straight up using heavily processed and monochromed pictures aa logos lmao)
I've seen quite a few different "stylistic" approaches to metal band logos, but I can't say I've come across any like that. Do you have any band names that I could look up as examples off the top of your head?
@@OctaveIndustries okay, had to search a bit because a lot of these bands are super underground, but here are some of them: Fungal Takeover, Botched Anastomosis J-Pouch, Gastroparesis. There are arguably better examples but it's kind of difficult to actively search for them (sometimes the band names are not even listed on posts with splits :c ) I seem to remember this being more of a thing in the Asian scene, but don't quote me on that 😅
