Create an Aged Vintage Style Logo Design in Illustrator Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create an aged vintage style logo design. We're going to take inspiration from generations past, when logos were hand crafted with custom lettering. To achieve the same effect in Illustrator we'll customise existing fonts to create a old school layout of cool typography. The vintage logo we'll be creating is based on a fictional jeans company Black Denim Co. The logo uses some of the classic design tricks from the 30?s, 40?s & 50?s to capture that old school look and is finished off with some distressed textures to represent the low-fi print techniques used by our ancestors. Classic logos were all about the typography. They often used a mix of hand crafted scripts and bold sans-serif lettering. Browse over your collection of fonts and compare the different styles to find one that matches the 30?s, 40?s & 50?s eras of advertising and branding. I've selected the Lavanderia font , but I'm not too keen on the flat edges. So why not customise it? Convert the font to outlines in order to manipulate its shape, then use the Pen tool to add in an extra point on the flat edges and adjust the bezier curves. The difference between the customised and the original is only subtle, but it helps create a unique design that fits the style we're aiming for. The current font seems a little too upright compared to other old school