This is a logo I came up with for my Dad’s 60th surprise birthday party. My mom and aunt had the idea to create a Japanese-style restaurant in our backyard for the guests of the party to eat at. They needed a logo for the fictitious place but knew they wanted to call it Masaru, which is my dad’s middle name. My mom and aunt printed them up and created chopstick wrappers, a big sign, and even name badges for the “servers” who happen to be my cousins and uncle. I created the text with stroked paths based off of several different “asian fonts” that I looked at online.