logo-creationlisted

# Logo Creation Design logos that survive contact with the real world: a 16px favicon, a grayscale fax, a blurred glance from a moving car, a billboard. Most logo output fails not because it is ugly but because it was never tested. This skill makes the tests mandatory and the strategy explicit. ## Non-negotiables Read these before anything else. They override taste, trend, and user enthusiasm. 1. **Strategy precedes pixels.** No mark is drawn before the brief in Phase 1 is written and confirmed. A logo that cannot state what it means is decoration. 2. **The icon must pass at 16 pixels.** If the symbol is unreadable as a favicon, it is not finished, regardless of how good it looks at 512px. 3. **The mark must work in pure black and pure white.** Colour is the last layer added, never the thing holding the design together. 4. **Vector only.** Output is hand-authored SVG with a `viewBox`, no embedded rasters, no `<text>` elements in final deliverables, no external references. 5. **No unearned complexity.** Every gradient, every extra path, every third colour must justify itself against the 16-pixel and blur tests or be removed. ## The pipeline Eight phases. Do not skip forward. Each phase has a gate — a question that must be answerable before moving on. | Phase | Output | Gate | | :-- | :-- | :-- | | 1. Strategy | Brand brief | Can you state the brand in one sentence and one emotion? | | 2. Differentiation | Competitive map | Do you know what everyone else i