{"id":740,"date":"2020-03-11T04:32:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T04:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/updating-my-personal-brand-logo\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T12:13:38","slug":"updating-my-personal-brand-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/updating-my-personal-brand-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating my personal brand &#038; logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I\u2019ve updated my personal brand online. I have more recently started focusing on my personal site, Twitter, and profiles online. <a href=\"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/when-to-sunset-a-side-project\/\">I sunsetted my tech blog &#8211; Digital Bounds<\/a>. Now, I am writing on this blog more often than I was in the past. I dropped off last month but started thinking about what I needed to do to make the site and profiles align with what I am heading towards now.<\/p>\n<p>Based on what my best friend, <a href=\"https:\/\/sunnysingh.io\/\">Sunny Singh<\/a>, was doing for his personal brand. I started thinking about my brand needing a logo or its own style. Now, I am not a designer or have that many design skills. I didn\u2019t want to work with a designer who would not match my style or would cost a lot more than I wanted to spend for some simple designs on my personal brand. Instead, I turned to Canva which allowed me to quickly create a simple logo, Twitter banner, Facebook banner, and other website header assets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/content\/images\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-10-at-11.21.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-image\" src=\"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/content\/images\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-10-at-11.21.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Canva Editing Area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let\u2019s not joke, the header isn\u2019t anything special nor is it a work of art. It is, however, something I designed based on what I know I like and enjoy seeing on my brand. I am working on more assets to use on my site, with my base design, and with more Canva support.<\/p>\n<p>Canva doesn\u2019t just mean you have to use a template and go with what is there. I used some creativity and was able to create what I shared above. It\u2019s a great tool whether your a YouTuber, Blogger, or someone who wants to step up their social media game.<\/p>\n<p>A little more information about what colors and fonts for who\u2019s interested:<\/p>\n<p>Main Colors:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>#737373<\/li>\n<li>#e7e9ec<\/li>\n<li>#68bbe3<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Accent Colors:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>#ffffc7<\/li>\n<li>#00b7ff<\/li>\n<li>#6fd6ff<\/li>\n<li>#bff0cf<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Font:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Norwester<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I share the colors and fonts because this both serves as a brand guide for me but also allows others to take the parts they link and repurpose on their creatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I\u2019ve updated my personal brand online. I have more recently started focusing on my personal site, Twitter, and profiles online. I sunsetted my tech blog &#8211; Digital Bounds. Now, I am writing on this blog more often than I was in the past. I dropped off last month but started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,2],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Personal Post"}],"post_tag":[{"value":3,"label":"Marketing"},{"value":2,"label":"Personal"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/LHTwitterBannerLite-3-1024x341.png",1024,341,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Leon Hitchens","author_link":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/author\/leonleonhitchens-com\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Personal Post","slug":"personal-post","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":77,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":77,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Personal Post","category_nicename":"personal-post","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Marketing","slug":"marketing","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":21,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2,"name":"Personal","slug":"personal","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":31,"filter":"raw"}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/LHTwitterBannerLite-3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}