Knights of Arhildr - Logo Design

Role: Logo Designer

Tools used: CLIP STUDIO PAINT, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Photo

Role-playing games from Japan, or JRPG’s, are my absolute favourite sort of video game. One of the projects on my bucket list as a graphic designer is to design a logo for one. I am absolutely in love with the elaborate and custom elements, and the use of color effects like gradients often seen in JRPG logos.

Vibrating in my seat and not willing to wait around for an official opportunity to arise, I went ahead and designed one as a personal project!

I started with the concept and title. “Knights of Arhildr” would be a fantasy JRPG with sci-fi elements. It takes place in a kingdom that builds on the seas, and the story would center on a group of knights who operate in this kingdom.

With this in mind, I designed a graphic that would serve as the knights’ emblem. I wanted it to be elaborate and to incorporate a sword to represent the knights and an anchor to represent their kingdom on the sea.

As for colours, I settled on blue-greens and yellow-green to show the presence of water in the characters’ lives and in the story, and to veer away from the typical blue hues. For the text, I used the typeface Cinzel Decorative by Natanael Gama as a base, and customized some of the letterforms.

All in all, this was a seriously fun project! I learned a lot about JRPG logo trends from studying references and putting the logo together. Would love to design more in the future!