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Within App Logo Design

Status: Open
Prize: $155
Entries Received: 0

Contest Brief

I am looking for a logo for my mobile app called Within.

This logo is from a series of app. I shared with you two other apps of the same series. The logo would reuse the same colors.

Within is a personal reflection and emotional awareness app. It helps people quickly log meaningful inner moments: emotions, body sensations, triggers, patterns, and insights. The app is about noticing what happens inside you, understanding emotional patterns, and becoming more connected to your inner world.

The logo should feel:

Calm, modern, warm, introspective, and slightly magical.

The app is not clinical or medical. It should not feel like a therapy clinic, hospital, or mental health corporation. It should feel more like a beautiful personal growth app: soft, human, emotional, and trustworthy.

Visual direction

I like a clean, minimal, modern style, similar to apps like Headspace, Calm, Stoic, Finch, or other emotional wellness apps.

The logo could explore ideas like:

Looking inward
A small inner world
A glowing center
A body or silhouette with something happening inside
A spiral, circle, portal, or inner pattern
A seed, flame, moon, eye, or abstract emotional symbol
A map of emotions or sensations
The idea of “what is happening within me?”

I am open to abstract logos, but the symbol should be easy to recognize and work well as an app icon.

Style preferences

The logo should be:

Simple and memorable
App-icon friendly
Soft but not childish
Spiritual or introspective, but not too religious
Emotional and warm, but still professional
Modern and premium
Colors

The app has a dark, dreamy, emotional interface. I am open to color suggestions, but I like colors such as:

Deep indigo
Purple
Lavender
Soft green
Warm peach
Cream/off-white
Subtle gradients

Please avoid harsh corporate blue, red, or generic medical colors.

What to avoid

Please avoid:

Generic brain icons
Generic heart icons
Medical/therapy symbols
Overly complex illustrations
Stock-looking mindfulness logos
Yoga clichés
Logos that look too corporate
Too much text detail that will not work in a small app icon
Deliverables

I would like:

A logo symbol/icon
A version with the word Within
A version that works as a mobile app icon
Light and dark background versions
Vector/source files if selected

The final logo should feel like a quiet invitation to pause, notice, and look within.