The offence

The request usually means one of three things: the work does not feel branded, the hierarchy is weak or somebody important needs to leave a fingerprint.

Solve the underlying issue. Build recognition through the whole system rather than asking the logo to perform emergency resuscitation.

The prescription

Do this next.

  1. Ask what feels insufficiently branded.
  2. Strengthen colour, type, imagery or voice where appropriate.
  3. Increase the logo only if legibility is genuinely the problem.