Top softwares used by Professional Logo Designers

A collection of best logo design software that are widely used by industry professionals.

Kanhaiya Sharma
Makers   Design Studio
4 min readMay 21, 2019

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Got Too many Questions on Quora almost every day. From beginners to experts all have the same question in mind About Logo software collection.

Which is good software for logo designing?

Now day’s logos are designed more on vector based software. Because they are highly scalable as much as a building & small as much as a website favicon(that symbol on top of every browser tab).

I mentioned below both free & paid software.
All software below are tried and tested by me.

Affinity Designer

Vector-based graphics software. (paid)

New but hold a lot of shares in the graphics industry. Most Affordable paid designing software currently available.

Affinity Designer is a vector-based graphic design software used by professionals. Best match for designers, artists, and creatives who are working on illustrations, icons, branding, UI designs, typography, print projects, mockups, web graphics, pattern designs, and concept arts. Customize live shapes easily.

Over 1,000,000% Zoom, Live Pixel Preview, Create Accurate Designs

Affinity — the fastest, smoothest, most precise professional creative software.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/

Inkscape

Open source vector-based software. (free)

Inkscape is an open source and free vector graphics software that is used by many designers for fast editing experience best part it’s free. means no need to spend an extra penny on new software if you are a beginner & want to learn logo design or graphic design just go for it.
Almost all the features that you find on a paid software you can get it in Inkscape. Inkscape community is huge and open source. just search on google you will get a bunch of tutorials for Inkscape.

Support Platform: Windows, Mac OS

https://inkscape.org/

Adobe Illustrator

Vector-based graphics software. (paid)

Best to make logos, sketches, typography, icons, mobile applications, website or even complex illustrations backed by Adobe. Illustrator is the industry standard from the past many years. A tool that helps designers makes pixel-perfect art.
Create, scale, zoom, align with pixel-perfect shapes. Fastest design tool in the market. Explore plugins for a quicker experience.

Support Platform: Windows, Mac OS

https://www.adobe.com/in/products/illustrator.html

Coral draw:

same as adobe illustrator but much easy to learn & use (paid)

CorelDraw is a suite of graphic designing software. best for graphic design, page layout, photo editing, and vector editing software. with the features of vector weld, trim, symbol and power clip capabilities. create multipage pdf, edit them in on click.

  • Affordable Price
  • Easy to learn vector illustration software Available in the market.
  • More application in one suit. Vector to pixel based software in one pack.
  • The first choice of print designers & printers.
  • Create your own VBA plugins and scripting for super geeky customization/automation.
  • Auto backup of files while working
  • Easy to customize shortcuts
  • Simplified interface
  • Image cropping and editing

Support Platform: Windows

https://www.coreldraw.com/en/

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