Quick answer
A laundry or dry cleaner logo from us costs £129 with every layout included. Your logo is printed on a ticket pinned to a shirt, on the plastic cover over a suit, on a hanger, a collection bag and a shopfront, so it needs a solid one-colour version that a thermal ticket printer can reproduce, and a shape people recognise on the high street.
This page is for launderettes, dry cleaners, ironing services, alteration and laundry counters, and collection and delivery laundries. If you clean homes, offices or carpets rather than clothes and linen, our cleaning company logo guide fits you better.
Launderette, dry cleaner, ironing service or collection laundry
These businesses share machines and chemistry but not customers, and each one needs a logo that suits the people who come through its door or open its app.
| Business | Typical customer | What they want to feel | Where the logo works hardest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-service launderette | Renters without a washer, people with duvets that will not fit at home | Clean, safe, open when they need it | Shopfront and window, opening-hours panel |
| Dry cleaner | Office workers, wedding and event clothes, delicate fabrics | Care and expertise with things they value | Tickets, garment covers, hangers |
| Ironing service | Busy households, often collected weekly | Reliable, personal, crisp results | Bags, labels, van, social profile |
| Collection and delivery laundry | Customers booking on a phone | Convenience and speed | App icon, laundry bags, delivery vehicle |
| Commercial laundry | Hotels, restaurants, salons, care homes | Capacity and consistency | Proposals, delivery cages, vans |
What it means for your logo: pick the row that earns you most, because a dry cleaner’s mark has to survive a thermal ticket while a collection laundry’s has to fill an app tile, and the shape that is best at one is rarely best at the other.
The ticket pinned to the shirt
For a dry cleaner, the most-printed version of your logo is on the ticket. Tags are pinned, stapled or tied to every garment, and a stub goes home with the customer. They are often printed on a thermal or impact printer at the counter, which has consequences:
- Black only. Most counter thermal printers print one colour, usually black. The logo must hold its shape without any colour at all.
- Low resolution. Fine serifs, thin lines and small text break up. A bold wordmark or a compact icon prints cleanly.
- Tiny space. The logo shares the ticket with a number, date, item list and price. A horizontal version that fits a narrow strip works best.
Some cleaners use coloured tags to sort work by day or by service. If you do, keep the logo black on every colour so it reads the same whichever tag a customer receives.
Before you approve a logo, print a test ticket on your own counter printer. If the logo is not clear there, it will not be clear anywhere else either.
Covers, hangers and the bag that goes home
A finished garment leaves your shop wrapped in your brand: a clear poly cover printed with the logo, a branded hanger and sometimes a paper collar on the shirt. These are seen at home, in the office and on the back of a car door, often for weeks.
- Garment covers are usually printed in one colour on thin film. A repeated pattern of your icon or a short name down the length looks deliberate; one big logo at the top can get lost in the folds.
- Hangers and shirt collars carry the logo small, so the icon or a short stacked version works.
- Laundry bags for collection services are seen on doorsteps and in hallways. A large, simple version on the front, plus your name on a tag, helps drivers and customers find the right bag.
Our Packaging Design service (£99) can lay out bag, cover and label artwork from your logo files.
Care symbols belong on the label, not in your logo
The washtub, triangle, square, iron and circle used on clothing care labels are tempting shortcuts for a laundry logo. They are best avoided. GINETEX, the International Association for Textile Care Labelling, which developed the symbol system set out in the ISO 3758 standard, states that the five symbols are protected trade marks and that using them requires a contract with GINETEX.
What it means for your logo: leave the washtub, triangle, square, iron and circle out of the mark entirely, which avoids a trade mark dispute you do not need and stops your logo looking like every care label in the customer’s wardrobe.
A better route is a simple idea that belongs to you: the curve of a hanger worked into a letter, the fold of a pressed shirt, a single bubble or droplet placed with care, or a confident wordmark that suits your street.
The shopfront and the late-opening window
Launderettes and dry cleaners are high-street businesses, and the shopfront is where many local customers first see you.
- The fascia needs a horizontal logo that reads from across the road, ideally lit for winter evenings and late opening.
- The window carries opening hours, services and prices. Vinyl in one colour, with the logo above a clear list, beats a crowded window full of stock graphics.
- Inside the launderette, machine numbers, instruction panels and the price board are read every visit. Using the logo’s typeface and colours on those makes a self-service room feel looked after.
Our shopfront signage guide covers fascias, projecting signs and window graphics.
Collection apps and the delivery van
Collection and delivery laundries live on phones. The icon on the booking app or website tab is the brand most customers see each week, followed by the driver at the door. A compact icon that fills a rounded square, a van with the name large on the sides and a tidy bag tag with the customer’s name build trust with people who may never visit your premises. Keep the icon simple enough to work as a favicon and a notification badge.
If you list a booking app on Android, the store sets the frame. Google’s Google Play icon design specifications ask for a full square 512 by 512 pixel PNG with no rounded edges or drop shadow, because Google Play applies its own corner mask, with a radius of 30% of the icon size, and its own shadow. They also say not to use text or graphics in the icon that promote deals or indicate ranking.
What it means for your logo: supply the laundry icon on a solid brand colour filling the whole square, keep the hanger, fold or letter inside the keyline grid so the corner mask never clips it, and keep offers and discounts in the listing text, never in the icon.
Many ironing services start from home, collecting from a few streets or an estate. The logo is then mostly seen on bags, labels and a Facebook page, so a friendly wordmark and a clear icon matter more than a fascia. Choose a name that does not tie you to ironing alone if you plan to add washing, alterations or a shop later, and print your name and number on every bag tag so a borrowed bag finds its way back.
Hotel linen, salon towels and the contract pitch
Commercial laundries serve hotels, restaurants, salons and care homes, and the sale is a contract. If you pitch for this work, your brand needs to look as organised as the operation: a clean proposal cover, a delivery note template, labels on cages and trolleys and a van livery that a hotel manager sees at the service entrance.
What it means for your logo: a commercial laundry needs a heavier, simpler mark than a high-street shop, with a stacked version that stays readable on a cage label across a loading bay, where bubbles and playful script would look out of place.
From ticket to shopfront: the £129 set
For £129, our laundry and dry cleaner logo design includes every layout: horizontal for the fascia, the ticket strip and the van, stacked for laundry bags and the window, and an icon for hangers, garment covers, the app and social profiles. There is no limit on concepts or on revisions within your brief, and you receive a single-colour version for thermal tickets and one-colour film, a 3D mockup and every file format a sign maker, bag supplier or ticket printer needs. The copyright is yours once the files are delivered. A matching price list from our menu design service (£79 per side) works well for a service counter, and our pricing page lists every fee.
Switch when the next box of covers is due
Dry cleaners and laundries reorder consumables regularly, which makes the switch-over easy to time. Change the ticket template and the app or website icon first, as they cost nothing to update. Order new covers, hangers and bags when stocks run low, rather than throwing good stock away. Change the fascia and window last, and keep a “same team, new look” line in the window for a few weeks so regulars do not think you have been sold. First concepts reach you within 48 hours of your completed brief. Customers rate us 4.8/5 Excellent. A logo that survives the ticket will survive the fascia, so order your laundry logo and let the smallest print job set the standard.
