Logos for restaurants, bakeries and cafes
Type the name of your restaurant, bakery or cafe and get six logos that lean toward food.
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How the engine knows it is food
Logo Lava reads the words in a name against a list of 2,069 words and 181 word stems, and 139 of the words mark a name as food: coffee, bakery, noodle, pizza, taco, brewery, deli, honey, mango and so on. When one appears, two things happen. The industry is set to food, and the name picks up the tones friendly, playful and handmade. Tone then steers the font and the palette, in the same way as for any other name.
Edit and downloadNunito 800, badge, radial background, rings-02 
Edit and downloadBaloo 2 600, horizontal, soft background, pin-18 
Edit and downloadAleo 700, horizontal, solid background, cup-03 
Edit and downloadPlus Jakarta Sans 700, horizontal, mesh background, paw-09
The names here are invented. Two of them show a gap worth knowing about, covered next.
When the name does not say food
A good food name is often not literal, and the engine can read it wrongly. We asked it what it saw in four of the examples on this page. Mossgate Coffee and Brindlewick Bakery came back as food, because coffee and bakery are on the list. Foxglove Pickle Co and Lumen Orchard came back as general, since neither pickle nor orchard is filed under an industry. Kettlewick Bakehouse came back as real estate, most likely because of the house at the end of Bakehouse. And Sundial Noodle Bar came back as legal, since the list files bar under law.
The fix is the same each time. Pass industry=food and the engine treats the name as food whatever the words say. The grid above uses that setting for the names that need it, and the fixed settings are visible in the address of every image.
Setting the industry does one thing: it makes marks tagged for food more likely. It does not change the font or palette directly. Those follow the tone, and you can set that yourself with tone=friendly,playful or any comma list of up to four tones.
Which marks it leans to
Of the 1,068 symbols, 236 carry the food tag. They sit in 14 families: blob, sun, sunset, sprig, pin, hexcluster, leaf, petal, fish, drop, fan, cup, flame and bag. A tagged symbol gets extra weight in the draw, so you see suns, leaves and cups more often, though the draw is still random and other marks can appear.
A few words also point at a specific mark. Coffee, cafe, tea and roast lead to the cup family, orchard to trees, spice to flames and farm to sprigs. That is why the six logos at the top of the page, for Mossgate Coffee, all carry a cup. Bakery, noodle and pickle have no such hint, so those names draw from the whole food-tagged set. To fix a mark yourself, pass symbol= with an id from the icon catalogue, or narrow the draw with family=cup,flame.
Edit and downloadPrata 400, horizontal, gradient background, cup-04 
Edit and downloadJost 400, horizontal, gradient background, sun-25 
Edit and downloadSora 400, horizontal, soft background, tree-03 
Edit and downloadOnest 700, horizontal, solid background, tree-14
Making it fit the place
A food logo has to work in places that other logos do not see: a paper cup, a window decal, a menu header, a delivery app avatar that is shown as a circle. Check each before you settle. A badge or emblem suits a bakery or brewery that wants a stamped look. A plain wordmark suits a menu. For a delivery app, make the square version with layout=icon, which the app can crop to a circle without losing the name.
If the feel you want is old-fashioned, a neighbourhood diner or a heritage bakery, the vintage style page covers the settings for that look. Colour is the other lever. A friendly name will draw warm palettes more often, and you can fix the colour with a brand value passed as colors if your sign or awning already has one.
For developers
Use it from code
https://api.logolava.com/v2/logo.png?text=Kettlewick+Bakehouse&industry=food&seed=1804217386industry=food overrides what the engine guessed from the name. It changes which marks are likely, so use it when a name does not contain a food word.
