34 Excellent Punctuation Inspired Logo Designs
We use punctuation everyday when writing articles, blog posts and emails. We’re all aware that using the wrong punctuation can completely change the meaning of a sentence or even a whole document. So, where else do people use punctuation? In logo design of course!
The 34 logos showcased in the post use punctuation as a design element. Some logos feature commas, colons and semicolons while others use exclamation marks, question marks, brackets and parentheses. I found they were very creative and thought I’d share them with you. Enjoy! :)
Talkmore ↓
Kalman Gergely ↓
GodPress ↓
Happy Quote ↓
Webility ↓
Schizophrenic ↓
Talknomics ↓
Earth Branding ↓
Green Yet? ↓
Numerical Man ↓
DesignMark ↓
Ingenio ↓
Quote Stork ↓
Deining Communicatie ↓
NHow ↓
Simon’s Hairstyling ↓
Apostrophe ↓
Everything Amarillo ↓
Dignity Design ↓
Geetha Arts ↓
Theater in de Steeg ↓
APJ ↓
Luvtalk ↓
MoviQuotes ↓
Mushquotes ↓
PunchQuotes ↓
Okey Design ↓
Fire Embrion ↓
Re-Styling ↓
WebCompany ↓
Enfinitive ↓
Code Fish ↓
Gobo ↓
Curious ↓
Your Turn To Talk
I hope you enjoyed this post and I’d love to know which ones are your favorites. Of course feel free to share other punctuation inspired logo designs with the rest of us!
About the author:
Jon Phillips is the founder and owner of SpyreStudios. He's been freelancing for many years and now focusses on WordPress development and blog design for small businesses and online publishers (see portfolio here).
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September 28th, 2009
The logos are really creative.
I specially like the logo of “Numerical Man”!
A logo represents a business. A logo tells a lot about a business and important part of brand reputation.
September 28th, 2009
Wow wow!!! Thank you!!!
September 28th, 2009
Wow i like these! Quite a lot of ‘quote’ one’s though – seems to be a popular choice?
I particularly like Schizophrenic’s use of the different punctuation, Earth’s combination of typeface and exclamation mark, and Numerical Man’s just brilliant.
What about everybody else?
September 28th, 2009
Very nice.
Looking at the “Ingenio ” logo, looks very vague to me.
September 28th, 2009
You forgot: http://logopond.com/thumbs/tn_.....377e62.png
http://www.logolounge.com/wd/u.....kmorex.jpg
http://www.logolounge.com/wd/u.....YaaWay.jpg
September 28th, 2009
Wow.Creative indeed.
September 28th, 2009
i like codefish!!!
September 28th, 2009
I love the Schizophrenic!!
September 28th, 2009
wonderful creative designs.. thanks for sharing.
I like punch and code fish..
September 28th, 2009
Wow, good, original list! I guess we’ll see a few copies of this list now on all the other design blogs! Hah.
September 28th, 2009
very nice done!
congrats.
September 28th, 2009
Wow…what a great collection of creative design !!!!
Thanks a lot for sharing…
September 28th, 2009
The ingenio logo is just trying to hard. There is no way anyone could understand it without already knowing it says ingenio
September 28th, 2009
Nice! Ingenio is really creative, but I never would have got it not knowing what it was before hand. Schizo is definitely my favorite.
September 28th, 2009
I was enjoying your list of punctuation logos and what do you know, mine was in the list (enfinitive). Thanks for featuring it! I really like the concept of using punctuation as part of a logo. Since it’s something we use everyday that has a pre-conceived meaning, using it in another way can help tell a new story in a short, meaningful way. Great post, thanks!
September 28th, 2009
Very creative examples. I like all of them!
September 28th, 2009
Thanks for the list. This is really comprehensive, there are lots of creative ideas here from which I can take some inspiration.
I particularly like the simpler understated concepts such as the gobo logo.
Thanks again!
September 28th, 2009
Very nice collection and ideas for logo designs.
I like the “Punch Quotes” logo very much :)
September 29th, 2009
Beautiful, I like this!
September 29th, 2009
These are awesome :) Very nice, and certainly very inspiring. Who knew these punctuation marks could be used to say so many things? The punchquotes and the schizophrenic are my favorites. Thanks, these are so C%L =) (couldn’t resist!)
September 29th, 2009
Some nice logos.
There’s also {UNION} ad. agency.
http://www.union.co.uk
September 29th, 2009
Nice collection…inspiring :)
September 29th, 2009
Thanks very much for the mention Jon!
September 29th, 2009
Sweet! Thanks a lot! :-]
September 29th, 2009
Great collection! There’s also http://www.punctuatingreality.com one.
September 29th, 2009
Felicitaciones por esta buena recopilación, es muy llamativo ver trabajos basados ene l punto.
Saludos desde Bogotá
September 29th, 2009
Nice) Like “Punch Quotes” logo a lot!
September 29th, 2009
Thanks for featuring my design (ingenio)!
I totaly agree there’s practically no way (especially for non-designers) to read it without knowing the name. The reason is everyone who’ll see it, **will** know it should be “ingenio”.
Let me explain: it’s no client job, only a lousy school project (fictive ad agency) :). It’ll be used only once, during the school’s doors open day, so it’s no big deal to explain the name by the rest of CI and the tagline: “Speaking without words.” That’s why I allowed myself so tricky concept.
About the others: I love almost all of them. Lets point some out: Numerical man is incredibly creative, Dignity has perfect color choice, super. But my favorite one is Gobo.
September 29th, 2009
probably not one of the best logos around, but mine is also punctuation inspired :)
September 29th, 2009
LOVE both Punch Quotes & Schizophrenic! Thanks for sharing! :)
September 29th, 2009
I just re-designed our logo for loyaltymedia, a publishing company. It’s another one to add to the list!
September 30th, 2009
How about Aalto University?
http://www.underconsideration......ersity.php
September 30th, 2009
Awesome collection….Great post.
September 30th, 2009
Some of these are really amazing. I especially like Codefish and Talkmore. Extremely clever.
^_^
September 30th, 2009
Good list. I’d also like to throw into the hat the Adult Swim logo for Cartoon Network.
September 30th, 2009
I’ve always been a fan of http://www.thecanadianpress.com/
October 1st, 2009
Wow…awesome collection! Thanks for sharing!
Ovi Dogar
October 5th, 2009
See also the Dutch Bruna fot books and magazines:
http://www.bruna.nl/
October 5th, 2009
Thnks! I’d like to add one my work: http://delamberg.net/i/musthave/
October 5th, 2009
Very nice collection, Lots of inspirational logos.
Thanks.
October 6th, 2009
Numerical Man is by far my favourite!
October 7th, 2009
A great list, love the Schizophrenic one especially, clean, simple and witty… the holly trinity!
October 7th, 2009
Ahaha. I love numerical man and code fish. I thought about doing some sort of play on punctuation for my logo. These make for good ideas!
October 7th, 2009
Lovely collection of logos!
October 8th, 2009
haha thats really creative. i like the e@rth one. haha
October 9th, 2009
Great collection of logos!
October 10th, 2009
Curious and Punch Quotes are simplistic genius. I really enjoyed the selection. Much appreciated.
November 4th, 2009
6.R.3.4.T!
Very Inspiring!
November 10th, 2009
I really like the clever simplicity of schizophrenic and curious.
Thanks!
November 12th, 2009
I like ‘talkmore’…
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