The Female Lead - Needs a new logo!

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Logo Design Brief
Brief:
We are refreshing our branding and would love a new logo for The Female Lead. We are an educational charity dedicated to making women's stories more visible.
We work alongside world-class photographers and feature beautiful imagery across our site.
- We are looking for a bold and contemporary logo (NOT Corporate). Right now The Female Lead doesn’t stand out on our videos/social content.
- A good logo would allow us to potentially use interchangeable colours for future collaborations/projects whilst keeping the main elements the same (I.e. See branding for Now This/Now This Her etc).
- We also need the logo to be used as a watermark on our videos - so if we need a symbol version, it would be great if this could be thought of / included but not a necessity.
We are very open to your ideas but please do not write The Female Lead as TFL as this will be confused for Transport for London, as we are a London charity. Also please do not use the gender symbol as this is very overdone in our industry.
EXAMPLES WE LIKE:
Freeda
Makers
Now This
Refinery 29
Malala Fund
Tik Tok
Lean In
COLOURS:
Some suggestions on colour palettes we like are in the google drive document below but we are open to your ideas:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_5g4KR4eMUKPtoFevfdXwjOOIzvnKMdFdUqIVHGAIW0/edit?usp=sharing
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Requirements
Must have
- Bold, contemporary - not corporate
Examples we like:
Freeda
Makers
Now This
Refinery 29
Malala Fund
Tik Tok
Lean In
Should not have
- The Logo should not be written as TFL - as this will be confused for Transport for London (especially as we are London based)
Do not use the female gender icon - this is very overused in our industry for logos.