Spent $40 on an AI logo generator and it actually worked out

I needed a quick logo for a side project last weekend, so I threw $40 at one of those AI logo makers on a whim. Gave it a short description and picked a style, and it spat out 50 options in under a minute. I ended up using one of them as-is for my landing page, and it looked way better than the scribbles I had in a notebook. Has anyone else tried those cheap AI tools and been surprised by the results?

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king.lisa1mo ago

Are we really calling a generic clip art collage a logo now? I dropped $40 on one of those things for a laugh and it gave me 50 variations of the same boring, soulless icon with a font slapped on it. It looked like something I could have made in 10 minutes with Canva for free. There's no thought behind the spacing, the colors probably won't work in black and white, and it definitely won't scale down to a favicon without looking like a blob. Spend that money on Fiverr and get something from a real person who can actually tweak it. Those AI things are fine for a placeholder, but calling it a finished product is just kidding yourself.

the_ruby1mo ago

@king.lisa I get what you're saying about those AI generated logos feeling generic, but I actually had the opposite experience when I tried one for a small client project last month. I gave it a really specific brief with some color hex codes and a sketch reference, and it gave me a handful of solid options that only needed minor tweaking in Illustrator. It's definitely hit or miss, but if you feed it good input it can save you a lot of time compared to starting from scratch on Fiverr.