Monogram Logo

 

Getting Started

Open a new 300 x 300 document

Use your last initial for the monogram

Make up a business name that uses your last name as part of it for the surrounding text

Draw a circle that is 280 x 280 with a solid fill color

Look at the examples on page 7 of the Before and After Graphics for Business: Creating a Successful Logo article to see all of the elements you need to include.

Text on a Path Using Fireworks

Drag out a circle (Shift + drag = perfect circle).

Type the text you want to use.

Select both items using one of these methods:

  1. Click on one item, hold down Shift, click on the second item.

  2. Use the pointer tool to drag a marquee around both items.
Go to the menu bar and click on Text > Attach to Path

The text will wrap around the shape.

Notice that the shape no longer has a fill color or stroke color -- just a path.

 

To adjust the position of the text on the path, change the number in the Path Offset box in the Properties panel.

To reverse the direction of text on a selected path:

• Select Text > Reverse Direction.

This will cause the text to move inside the circle.

 

You can adjust the spacing betwen letters by changing the amount of kerning.

Sometimes letters on a path can look like they are pushed together.

Changing the kerning can help make the text more readable and pleasing to the eye.

 

If you want to have a shape with a fill color with your text that is on a path, you must make a new circle the same size as the path and fill it with the color you want.

Move the new circle under the text on a path -- you can drag the layer in the Layer panel so that it is beneath the text layer.

To add text that curves below the circle:

Click on the layer "Pflugerville", your original text/path layer.

Copy and paste to get a duplicate layer.

Detach the "Pflugerville" text from the path (Text > Detach from Path).

Double-click on the text and replace it with the new text.

Select both the text and shape, then attach the text to the path.

Use the Path Offset box to adjust the position of the new text.

Copy the gold circle and paste.

Change the color to blue with a gold stroke.

Move the blue circle layer below the gold circle layer.

Use the scale tool to increase the size of the blue circle so that it looks like the illustration.

Add a letter (the "monogram") to the center.

You can type in a font size that is higher than 96 (the largest font size shown in the list). You can also use the scale tool to make your letter as large as you want it.

I added a "glow" filter to create the blue outline for the letter.
Another possibility is using a graphic instead of the actual monogram.