I need some help with my logo please.

[Youphoria]

Hey guys, I made up a game called "GOAL: Unrestricted Street Soccer", and I have been working on the logo for a couple of days.
The problem: I do not know what I should do for the pattern/color/texture for the letters.
To give you an idea of what Im gonna do to the logo, I will be adding a street sign in the middle of the octagon shaped 'O'.
Your help would be much appreciated.
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7417/mywipaj3.png

[susuwatari]

I was gonna say put a football in the O and leave the rest white but after reading what you said...maybe a football hexagon pattern on the text, failing that i's stick with the grafiti style you have. Good job with it so far though.

[KoopaDasher]

OK, well, if you had not told me what it was supposed to say, I would not be able to read that. For the GOAL part, I would suggest:

- Add an exclamation point (!) to the end of GOAL.
- Change the font to something large, bold, and simple. Something along the lines of Impact or Arial. Skew the text a bit, and add a gradient. Add a stroke along the outside, and add another stroke again, off center, behind it, to make it look 3D.
- Put the Unrestircted Street Soccer part as graffiti, but please use another font

Did you get all that?

[Youphoria]

thanks for the advise...but i dont think im gonna be changin the whole logo...most of it isnt even text, most of it (75%) is hand drawn by me. i think its pretty easy to see that it says GOAL, and im gonna keep it that way, but i will put an exclamation point. and im gonna probably use graffiti for the subtitle...thanks for the suggestions guys

[Youphoria]

by the way, this is an alt account of an existing member..not gonna say who, but lets see if you can guess who i am (im not trying to mess with anyone, i just wanted a new name).

[KoopaDasher]

Well, the only other person I know who's ever hand-drawn a logo is Crayon Man....

[Youphoria]

Correctamundo. First guess too.

[KoopaDasher]

Correctamundo. First guess too.

Yay!! :p I remembered that skateboarding logo you did, that looked similar to this. :D