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Logo Design
Monograms 101: Designing Initials That Work as a Mark
A monogram has to do a small job extremely well: read clearly at the size of a favicon. Here's what separates a monogram that works from one that quietly falls apart at small sizes.
Monograms and Marks That Survive a Favicon
A browser tab icon gives a mark roughly sixteen pixels to work with. A worked comparison of real generated monogram variants — stacked, reversed, dot-spaced, ampersand — and which shapes hold up at that brutal a size, and which fall apart first.