I’m doing a logo for a brand identy project for a restaurant called Fresco Mexico. The concept was to have a jalapeño pepper part of the M. But, I’m having a hard time cleaning it up. Im trying to make the logo it look clean. [Screenshot_20200505-185729] if you can give me some tips on how to clean …

Do you have a really good reason to add “effects” to a logo? A lot of times, less is better. You could maybe give it some minimal tapering lines to suggest grill lines, but don’t be using transparency effects to make fuzzy burn marks.

Could I use the pen tool or line tool for that?

Agree with HotButton! Combining the pepper and the M will hard to make work.

Try using simple shapes “Circles” to get all of your main area shapes, align them accordingly, add and delete anchor points where needed and join all of the shapes/points. Without breaking any rules of the forum… I’m not doing this for you, just pointing you in the right direction… see pic. When usi…

I managed to create the pepper using the pen tool. How do I adjust the colors, and add grill markings?

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Thanks, the original plan was to use that pathfinder tool, but I didn’t how I would do that, and I could find the path-finder tool, so I will try this.

I think that’s my problem I’m not seeing it as simple shapes.

Could I use the pathfinder tool for the M?

[image] Lovedesign: I managed to create the pepper using the pen tool. How do I adjust the colors, and add grill markings? I’m fairly certain that in one your posts you mentioned that you were wrapping up a design degree at a junior college or something like that. I have to wonder what in the…

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