Manual vs Automated Logo Grids: Here's why designers are switching

Kwaku Amprako
Logo Specialist & Founder of Akrivi
May 15, 2025
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Kwaku Amprako is a logo specialist & visual identity designer, speaker, educator, and founder of Akrivi — Shaping the future of logo and identity design. Get in touch→

What Designers Gain When They Stop Building Grids by Hand

I’ve been in the logo design world long enough to know: how you structure your work matters.

Grids are foundational. They bring balance, proportion, and intentionality to any mark.

But for years, that structure came at a cost — mostly in time and repetition.

Let’s break down the difference between building grids manually and building automated grids with tools like Logo Grid Generator™ — so you can decide what makes sense for your workflow.

1. Speed

Logo Grid Generator™ Generating outlines

Manual grids require full focus.

You’re aligning shapes, duplicating lines, locking layers — and rechecking every move.

If you’re working with clients or producing high volumes of concepts, the time spent on these areas add up fast.

However, with automated logo grid generators, you can do this instantly.

One click. Done.

2. Accuracy

Logo grid presentation showing anchors and gridlines

Manual methods rely on consistency and precision — and even the best designers make errors over time.

Misaligned anchor points. Inconsistent curves. Slight spacing mistakes that show up when you zoom in or present.

Automated grids remove that risk.

They generate geometrically accurate frameworks every single time — no guesswork, no tweaking.

3. Professional presentations

When clients see a grid behind your logo, they see structure, strategy, and polish.

But if that grid has even one minor error, it undermines the confidence you’re trying to build.

With automated grids, you’re not just working faster — you’re presenting better.

Every grid becomes a piece of confidence you give to your clients

It instantly shows your expertise and gives them trust in the work you have created

4. Saving Your Creative Energy

The more time and energy you spend on tedious tasks such as creating logo design grids, the more it chips away at your creative flow.

Your creative energy shouldn’t be spent on setting up lines — it should be spent on ideas that move projects forward.

Automated grid tools such as Gridit help you focus on what actually matters in the design process.

Check out my blog here about how important your creative energy is as a designer.

Download Free Automated Grid Tools for Your Logos

Free logo grid generator scripts

I created several free Adobe Illustrator scripts that generate different types of logo grids to help with your logo design lockups.

You can check them out here and download these free Logo Grid Generators to start using automated grids in your own workflow.

👉 Download Free Logo Grid Generators


So… Manual or Automated?

Manual grids still have their place — especially when you’re experimenting or building something experimental.

But for every other situation?

Speed, precision, and polish matter.

And Gridit™ was built to deliver all three — instantly.

Check out this video I created demonstrating the difference between Automated and Manual Grids, using Lgg

Kwaku Amprako
Logo Specialist & Founder of Akrivi

On a mission to simplify logo and identity design, I build tools and workflows that help designers work faster, smarter, and with more precision—minus the friction.

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