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Convert a logo to vector
This tool traces a PNG or JPG logo into vector paths in your browser — your file never leaves your computer. Drop in the only copy anyone can find, and download one that scales to a signboard.
Automated · not a substitute for a person
If what comes out is not right, send it to us
These tools run on their own in your browser, and automatic is not the same as correct. A trace can miss a curve or turn a smooth arc into short straight segments. A cut contour can clip a tight corner. Bleed can be added to a file that was never built to carry it, and a check can pass artwork that still has something wrong with it only a person would notice. Treat what comes out as a starting point, not a proof.
If you are not happy with the result, send it to us and we will set the artwork up properly — free when you print the job with us. No setup fee, nothing to pay for the time. We would far rather spend twenty minutes on a file than have you print something you are not pleased with, and you still see a proof before anything runs. If you are printing it somewhere else, we will still set it up — that is artwork setup, at a fixed price from $29.
Why signage needs vector and print often does not
A raster image is a grid of pixels, so it has a fixed amount of detail. A vector is a set of instructions — this curve, that fill — so it can be drawn at any size with no loss at all. A logo supplied as vector is sharp on a business card and sharp on a six-metre fascia sign.
For a 90 × 55mm business card, a good raster logo is usually fine. For shopfront signage, vehicle graphics or a pull-up banner, it usually is not — and cut vinyl needs vector regardless of size, because the cutter follows a path rather than a picture.
What tracing can and cannot do
- Works well: flat logos with solid colours and clean edges. Wordmarks, simple icons, single-colour marks.
- Works badly: gradients, drop shadows, photographs, and anything already blurry. Tracing an artefact produces a crisp vector of that artefact.
- Does not recover type. A traced wordmark becomes outlines, not live text — which is fine for print but means you cannot correct a spelling afterwards.
Always ask the client for the original first. Whoever designed the logo has an AI, EPS or SVG somewhere. Ten minutes chasing it beats an hour cleaning up a trace, and the result is the logo rather than an approximation of it.
Getting a usable result
- Start from the largest, cleanest copy you can find — not the one embedded in a slide deck.
- Remove the background before tracing if the logo sits on white; a stray background fill traces as an extra shape.
- Check the count of paths afterwards. A simple logo that traced into hundreds of paths has traced the compression noise, not the shape.
- Zoom to 800% and look at the curves. Tracing tends to turn smooth arcs into a series of short straight segments.
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