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For those of you who may not know, Hardwar is a 6mm skirmish wargame successfully Kickstarted and published by Modiphius (who I know was around on these forums a bit ago, so maybe they'll see this! Read my signature ). As a benefit of being a backer, I (and everyone else who got a tier that provided the PDF rulebook and unit cards) received preview PDFs of 50 unit cards and the rulebook. Within the latter lay many more elements (the term used for models or units) and manufacturers than were mentioned in the Kickstarter, or had models in the base kits.

You can find an example unit card on the Kickstarter page, for visual reference.

Now, I have a program that I can use to make tabletop game assets and cards and such - called Tabletop Creator Pro - that I often use to try to replicate trading cards, game boards, the like. These usually don't see the light of day, but I use them to make official-looking homebrew things. Hardwar became one of these projects. It was actually pretty easy to replicate the unit card nearly 1:1, but that might be experience speaking. Having a high-resolution PDF helped, too. With this, I decided to make cards of the official elements - the 50 cards provided - that could instead have pictures of whatever minis I'd decide to use to represent them. That done, I looked towards the elements that lacked cards.

All of the statblocks included the element's manufacturer, so I naturally added the means to include that information on the card. Not visibly, just something that could be referenced by flags or whatnot. From there, I realized I could pretty easily... extract the existing manufacturer logos from the PDF. With a bit of cleanup, they became usable. I used them in place of mini pics to fill the empty space in the middle of the card. However, not every manufacturer had a logo in the PDF.

I could not let that stand, mainly because when I have the card automatically call the image for the manufacturer's logo and there isn't one, it renders a big, purple rectangle. So, finally we get to the main topic of this thread. I made some logos. No generative AI was used for it (though I do have ChatGPT telling me where certain cities are, what words might mean, and what the manufacturer's home culture looks like IRL, if there's an equivalent - all of which I cross-reference). I referenced some clipart and used free versions of some fonts to make these logos (I can provide font names, too). They're all at a point where I'm happy enough with them, but I can still make changes in case I got some important things wrong, or if good feedback is provided (as it's welcome!). Besides these, I've also got Kaliber and Vektor in the works, the former of which just needs a snappy 2-4 word slogan.