Redesigning Ritual Cafe’s Logo

Here you can take a look at the steps I went through to successfully give Ritual Cafe of Warwick, RI a new look.

Design Rational

I chose to redesign the logo for Ritual Cafe for several reasons. One of the reasons being that they are local to my school, so I could reach out to them with my proposal, and I thought that the logo could use more personality and uniqueness to it to help them stand out from the hundreds of other pre-existing coffeehouses around. My design idea started with picking a typeface that would be memorable but still remain bold. I then decided to interpret the word “ritual” as something that a person does daily. In this specific case, I chose to represent “ritual” with a sun icon- this cafe is only open until 3pm and they primarily sell breakfast food and drinks so I knew it would be suiting. To create contrast from their name and their tagline, I chose a different, but still unique and personality filled font.

Challenges

Some of the challenges I came across were:

How to create a logo out of a pre-existing simple typeface
What imagery/iconography to use
How to incorporate imagery/iconography
What typeface to use
How many colors to use in the logo

Solutions

These are the solutions that I came up with:

Mix typefaces and small iconography together
Take advantage of the word “ritual”
Place the sun icon over the letter i in “ritual”
Showcase a bold, memorable, unique typeface pairing
Keep it simple and original, stick to one

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