Brand Your Nail Salon With Our Free Online Logo Maker
TRUiC’s nail salon logo maker allows you to easily brand your company and create the best logo design for your business in just a few clicks. We generate thousands of logos in seconds until you find the best, professional looking logo for your business.
Our nail salon logos are unique as they are based on icons, designs, and other assets created by our TRUiC designers paired with open-source graphics and fonts, so there are no legal issues for your business.
Once you make your free logo and download your favorite design, it is yours to own and further customize for all your business needs. Whether you choose to edit it further or use it for your website, business cards, correspondence, or other brandable items, our user-friendly logo generator has got you covered so you can create a high-resolution, professional logo in just a few steps!
Don’t have a business idea or registered your business name yet? Visit our helpful guides on How to Start a Nail Salon or visit our How to Register a Business Name.
Creating Your Nail Salon Logo
When you’re designing a logo for a nail salon, you want it to be unique, on-brand, and instantly recognizable. This might sound overwhelming, but it’s actually fairly simple. Logos are made up of four basic elements: shape, color, symbols, and fonts — each with their own personalities and meanings. Read on to learn what they mean, how they’re being used by the best-known salons, and pro tips on how you can use this info to create an eye-catching nail salon logo of your own.
Before you even think about colors and fonts you’ll need to determine what makes your nail salon’s brand unique. Here are a few questions to narrow it down:
- What colors and finishes are used in your nail salon’s decor?
- How would you describe the atmosphere or ambiance of your salon?
- Who is your ideal customer and what brings her through your door?
Your nail salon might appeal to budget-conscious customers, hurried travelers, or vacationers in the mood to relax. It might feel casual, trendy, or high-end. Knowing who you’re serving and what attracts them to your business is essential to designing a great nail salon logo.
Now that you know what you’re trying to say through your logo design, let’s look at how well-known nail salons use shape, color, symbols, and fonts to capture the essence of their unique brands.
The Language of Shape
In the same way that nail shape displays your client’s own personal style, logo shapes have a lot to say about the personality of your business. Rectangles are commonly used for nail salon logos, as this structured, balanced shape conveys professionalism and efficiency. Other popular nail salon logos create the overall shape of an upward pointed triangle, subtly communicating growth, assertiveness, and intrigue.
What Color Communicates
Gray, blue, pink, and green are all popular colors for nail salon logos due to the meanings behind each shade. Blue communicates calm, confidence, and expertise. Pink is considered feminine, nurturing, and romantic. Green is associated with nature, vibrance, and health. Gray — a color frequently used by well-known nail salon brands — conveys the spa-like qualities of luxury, sophistication, and calm.
A Symbol Is Worth a Thousand Words
Symbols create an instant connection between your logo and a defining quality of your brand. For example, the Namaste Nail Sanctuary logo is topped by a symbol that cleverly arranges lotus petals into a meditation pose — an image that strongly connects with the salon’s relaxation-focused services.
Monograms and leaves are other common symbols used in the nail salon industry. That said, many of the best-known nail salon logos omit them altogether, proving that when it comes to logo design, sometimes less really is more.
Fonts Set the Mood
More than just a style choice, the fonts you choose for your nail salon logo hold a wealth of meaning. Clean and modern sans serif fonts like Gil Sans and Avenir are some of the most used fonts in nail salon logos. Slab serif fonts like Josefin and Museo are contemporary and trendy, which is probably why they’re also very popular in logos for major nail salon brands.
Learn From the Best in the Business
Need inspiration? These top nail salon logos will get your creative juices flowing:
Regal Nails
What works: The Regal Nails Logo uses a rectangular logo that conveys boldness, confidence, and professionalism. The bold horizontal line emphasizes the brand’s forward motion. Its black and white design is timeless, bold, and elegant. The crisp, block letters of the sans serif font are clean, straightforward, and modern.
Bellacures
What works: The Bellacures logo uses a slab serif font that is modern and contemporary, and the logo is rectangular, indicating balance and strength. The bright circular monogram and rounded font highlight the feminine, positive, and welcoming qualities of the brand.
Frenchies
What works: The Frenchies logo uses shades of blue in the logo to suggest confidence, while the fun slab serif font adds trendy, modern energy to the design. The stacked text of the logo creates a rectangular shape that is strong, bold, and balanced.
Conclusion
You’re set! With the information and inspiration above you’re well on your way to designing a logo that will perfectly capture the flavor and feel of what your nail salon has to offer.
How to Use Our Free Logo Generator
Follow the simple steps below to create, personalize, and download your company logo design:
2. Choose a Type of Logo Design, Font, and Color Scheme
When designing your logo, you’ll have to choose between having a logo with a graphic or a text only nail salon logo.
Option 1: Graphic
This type of logo displays your business name with a themed nail salon graphic that will be displayed in a few different layouts. The graphic will either sit next to your business name, or it will sit above it.
After choosing this, you’ll need to choose your favorite font style and color pallet to generate your first set of logo choices.
Option 2: Text
This type of logo displays your business name or just the initials of your business name in a stylized way using creative fonts and typography.
After this, you’ll choose a color pallet and generate your logo choices.
5. Download Your Nail Salon Logo
Now that your logo is customized, you will go to our final step, downloading your logo. We make it hassle-free with no email requirements and no sign-ups of any kind — simply download and you’re done.
Our logo maker will provide you with a high-resolution logo in a scalable vector graphic (SVG) file format. This file format is the best for logos because it is easily editable and can be resized as small or as large as you need without losing any quality.
Our nail salon logo designs also come available for all social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Google, and more.
6. After Downloading, Make Sure Your Logo is Unique
Now that you have decided on your favorite logo design for your business, you should conduct a trademark search to ensure that your logo design is unique.
This step will ensure that your logo design is unique to your business and that once trademarked, no one will be able to use it. If you want to learn more about how to trademark your professional logo and ensure its availability, you can visit our guide on How to Trademark Your Business Brand.
Make sure to confirm that your new logo is completely unique by taking the following steps:
- Perform a reverse image search on Google.
- Formally conduct a trademark search using a lawyer specialized in trademarks.
7. Get Your Domain and Start Creating Your Website
Now that you have your logo, you are ready to start building your brand and creating your website. GoDaddy's free website builder offers the best option for creating a professional website and is very user-friendly — even for beginners. Creating your own website is such a crucial and satisfying step for any new business owner.
Things to Consider When Picking a Logo
Your company logo can convey different meanings depending on the logo design you choose so try branding your company with a logo sporting symbols, icons, and/or fonts that clearly represents what you’re selling to your customers (e.g., use a coffee cup in the logo for a coffee shop).
Color Psychology - The colors in your business logo design can help define the mood of your business. Consider which color scheme will best represent your logo design when using the color editor and creating your company brand with our logo maker.
- Warm colors such as red, orange, pink, brown, beige, and yellow are considered to be inviting or exciting.
- Cool colors like blues, greens, and purples convey a relaxing mood in a brand relating to the ocean or a calming atmosphere.
- Black and white provide great contrast when branding your business and are easy to see and read.
Accessibility - There are basic rules when it comes to creating an effective and accessible logo design.
- The font you choose should be easy for customers to read and recognize.
- Color contrast is vital for the readability of your business logo.
Icons vs. symbols to make your own logo design - Symbols can help to represent your business, like products you sell or the type and quality of service you offer; it’s like a visual metaphor for your logo design.
For example, a logo design for a CBD oil shop could be depicted as a leaf; the symbolism being that it’s earthy, organic, natural, or all of these. Or, if you own a computer store, you can create a logo design that has the icon of a computer, it can really be that simple.
Font style - Choosing the right font for a logo design is important since fonts capture the attention of customers and show what they can expect from your company.
If you own a more formal business, such as an accounting firm, you’ll likely want to choose a font that is more minimalistic and professional. If you’re opening a business such as a toy store, you’ll probably want to choose a font that is more fun and whimsical.
If you aren't feeling confident about designing your small business logo, then check out our Design Guides for Beginners, we'll give you helpful tips and advice for creating the best unique logo for your business.
Frequently Asked Questions
How soon can I use my free nail salon logo?
After creating your own logo, you can download it and use your new nail salon logo immediately.
How much does it cost to create a logo using TRUiC's Logo Generator?
Using TRUiC’s nail salon logo generator to design your own logo and download it is completely free, with no email sign ups and no strings attached.
Once you’ve downloaded your logo, you can use it for any commercial or personal purposes. We recommend getting marketing and promotional materials, like business cards through Deluxe.
What is the difference between copyright, trademark, and patent?
Copyright, trademark, and patent are all types of intellectual property (IP) that do different things:
Copyrights are often used by artists to protect their creative work; if someone copyrights their work (e.g., novel, song, etc.), they own the rights to be able to do what they want with it, from selling to recreating.
A trademark, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), is a word, phrase, symbol, and/or design that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from those of others. Trademarks are commonly used for logos and slogans.
Patents are used to protect inventions and ideas. For instance, if someone creates a type of machine or tool, a patent can grant rights to the inventor so no one can use their invention/idea without permission.
CHOOSE YOUR LOGO TYPE
Graphic
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PICK YOUR FAVORITE FONT STYLE
Simple
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WHAT COLOR BEST DESCRIBES YOUR BRAND?
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Relaxed & Calm
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Elegant & Luxurious
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WE’VE CREATED YOUR FREE LOGO!
Our Logos are 100% free for personal or commercial use.
CONGRATS ON YOUR NEW LOGO!
Step 1: Download Your Logo
You’re downloading a Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG) format for your logo. It’s a high resolution graphic that can scale to any size and is the most important file format to have for your logo.
Step 2: Get Images for Social Media
We use the Portable Network Graphics (.PNG) file format, the next best format for logos, and have a download list of all the sizes you need to get your brand out there on any social media platform. To learn more check out our Social Media Guide for Small Businesses.
Get All Social Media Downloads Here
Logo Sizes for LinkedIn
Logo Sizes for YouTube
Step 3: Get Your Website
A website can help your business thrive and creating a professional-looking website has never been easier. Your website can be up and running in a matter of minutes using a website builder.
Step 4: Business Structure
Choosing a formal business structure has many advantages. For most small businesses, a limited liability company (LLC) is the most popular and suitable choice.
It's easy to form an llc and an LLC will protect your personal assets if your business is sued, very useful for new business owners.
Step 5: Get Business Cards and Merchandise
We’ll help you get your business cards, social media graphics, letterheads, and much more so you can start branding your business. Check out our discounts below.
Explore TRUiC's Free Tools
Get a jump start on your business with all of TRUiC’s Tools, including:
Check out our Start a Business Guides
Start your business today with our simple step-by-step guide. In case you want help, we also include contact information for free business resources in every metro region in the United States.
Subscribe to the TRUiC YouTube Channel
We explain complex ideas and processes in an entertaining and accessible way. Each month we publish new content on our channels, so be sure to check out our YouTube channel and subscribe to see our most recent videos.
How to Use Your New Logo
Our logo generator is primarily open-sourced fonts and graphics in addition to some original designs from our TRUiC team, so whether you are ready to use your logo now or want to make changes to it, we highly recommend that you also do some research to make sure there are no other businesses with similar branding.
Doing this search will not only confirm that your business will be able to stand out against the competition, but it will also help keep you safe from infringement.
If another business is selling a similar good or service with similar branding, you could face infringement issues, the consequences of which could lead to the destruction of your inventory and marketing material, fines, and/or legal fees. So, doing some research now could save you a lot of money, goods, and time later.
If you aren't feeling confident with your logo, check out our Design Guides for Beginners, we'll give you helpful tips and advice for creating the best unique logo for your business.
Should You Trademark?
You also want to be careful of any trademarks or service marks that may be active. Trademarking is a legal process that helps you claim a particular symbol, name, or slogan as your own and gives your brand legal protection from infringement.
We do not give trademark rights with our logos; trademarking is a legal process and would need to be done separately with your state or with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). If you are interested in trademarking your brand, check out our How to Trademark Your Brand article for more information.
Once you have your logo and have done your research, it’s time for some business cards! Check out our favorite choice for your new business cards.
Next Steps for Your Business
You have your logo, you’ve done your research, now what? Here are some recommendations for the next few steps in your entrepreneurial journey.
Create Your Website
A good website with a relevant domain URL is an important part of your business’s image. With your website, you can connect directly with your customers as well as offer your services to the whole internet.
Not sure what domain your website should have? Use our Domain Name Generator to get some ideas.Once you’ve decided on a domain name, you can check if it’s available with GoDaddy.
If you’re looking for a website builder, check out our website builder reviews.
Get an LLC Operating Agreement
All LLCs should have an operating agreement. An operating agreement is a document that outlines LLC ownership duties for each member. Some key sections may include the business’s organization, capital contributions, voting procedures, and dissolution practices.
You can easily write an operating agreement for your LLC with our free operating agreement tool, or you can use our free operating agreement template. This document usually doesn’t have to be filed with the state, but some states legally require you to have one in your business records.
You can find out if your state requires an operating agreement by using our How to Form an LLC guide.
Find the Right Business Insurance
All small businesses - regardless of size - need to protect themselves should things go wrong. By purchasing business insurance, you can protect your company from losing its property or financial assets.
Not all forms of insurance are the same. Here are some of the common forms of business insurance:
- General Liability Insurance: This is the most common type of business insurance and protects against injury and damages that occur on your business’s property.
- Professional Liability Insurance: A professional liability insurance policy protects against claims of unsatisfactory services.
- Workers’ Compensation Insurance: If an employee is injured on the job and requires compensation, workers’ compensation insurance can cover the cost and protect your business from any further lawsuits.
Check out our business insurance page for more examples.
