How I design logos for side projects as a non-designer

Author here. Wanted to give some background and the TLDR version.

I’ve never been great at design; the idea of designing a logo I was proud of has always seemed daunting.

Over the last few months, I’ve been hacking away at a few side projects, all web apps. In doing so, I put together a repeatable process for designing an above-average logo as a non-designer.

I break it down into 4 steps:

1. Choose a color palette - I stumbled upon this site called Colorhunt (https://colorhunt.co/) on ProductHunt awhile back.

2. Choose a Google Font - I find it easiest to start by Googling for some articles where authors list their favorites.

3. Find a logo mark - I’ve used free icons on Flaticon. You need to include an attribution link for your free icons, but I don’t mind doing that for side projects.

I recently discovered that if you download an SVG file, you can import it into a design tool like Figma and edit it!

4. Combine logo text and mark in Figma

For you non-designers out there, how do you make your logos?