Refining an MS Logo with Interlocking Letters and Gold

Refining an MS Logo with Interlocking Letters and GoldRefining an MS Logo with Interlocking Letters and Gold

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Josiah Joshua

• 13h

I fixed a logo in 10 minutes.

A client sent me an MS logo that looked cheap. Problem: letters were too far apart, no overlap, wrong gold.

Fix: Interlocked the M + S, tightened the spacing, used metallic gold #D4AF37.

Same letters. Luxury feel.

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Artur Mikhov

pro

• 12h

Interlocking the M and S also gives the embroidery one continuous shape to stitch, which tends to hold up better than two separate letters. Did you test how the overlap reads at chest-logo size, around 3 cm?

Josiah Joshua

• 9h

Great point Artur — that's exactly why I interlocked them. Two separate letters create 2x start/stop points and the small S tends to pucker. With the overlap, it stitches as one continuous path.

For the 3cm chest size, I tested it at 3.2cm wide. The overlap still reads clean...

VIMAL SAHU

• 12h

So pretty

Miguel Queirós

max

• Oct 28

Brand work for OldHand AI

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Kris Anfalova

pro

• Oct 28

Landing page design for Lumo — banking for freelance life

Banks sell control — dashboards, charts, a card floating at fifteen degrees. Freelancers don't want control over their money. They want to stop thinking about it in the gap between sending an invoice and the money landing.

That gap is what the page is built on. The product sits in a meadow instead of on a dark grid, because the promise isn't "manage your finances better" — it's "we handle the part that keeps you up." And the strongest line on the page isn't a feature: no waiting for Monday. Freelancers don't lose weekends to fees. They lose them to timing.

The proof follows the same rule. One freelancer, one number — 4% lost on every international payment. A percentage someone can check against their own account beats any adjective.