Convert a logo to vector
Someone sent the logo as a PNG. Trace it back into paths here — flat fills, low node count, editable — without uploading the brand asset anywhere.
- Input
- Logo
- Output
- Vector
- Engine
- WASM, in your tab
- Price
- Free preview
Drop an image here, or paste
Your image is never uploaded. It is traced in this tab.Open the full converter
Preset
- 01Logo — set for this page16 colours
- 02Line artBlack & white
- 03Photo64 colours
- 04Embroidery8 colours · Cutout
- 05Vinyl4 colours · Cutout
- 06LaserBlack & white · Polygon
- Output · SVG · PDF · EPS · DXF
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- Your file stays in this tab
What the trace looks like
Why vectortrace
- Ticket 1 / 3
In-browser and private
The engine is WebAssembly running in a worker on your own machine. Your image is never uploaded — so there is nothing to leak, nothing to delete, and nothing to take on trust.
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Editable paths, not a wrapper
The engine groups the image into colour regions, takes the boundary between them and fits curves to it. What comes out is real geometry — one fill per region, every node yours to move — produced in the tab and never on a server.
- Ticket 3 / 3
Formats print and production use
SVG and PDF for artwork; EPS and DXF for cutters, engravers and embroidery software. Real files, opened in Illustrator, Inkscape and LibreCAD — not an SVG with a JPEG inside it.
Format facts
| Format facts | Logo · in | Vector · out |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Usually a raster PNG or JPG of a mark that was vector once. | Paths and fills rather than pixels — SVG, PDF, EPS or DXF. |
| Scaling | Blurs past its native size, which is why it has to be redrawn. | Sharp at any size. |
| Colour | Flat brand colours, plus whatever the anti-aliasing added at the edges. | One solid fill per path, in a palette you can edit. |
| Editable in | Photoshop and GIMP — neither of which can move an edge cleanly. | Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma, Affinity Designer, CorelDRAW. |
| Typical use | Brand marks handed over as a screenshot or a web export. | Anything that will be printed, cut, engraved or resized. |
Worth knowing
A logo was almost always vector once. What you were sent is an export of it, and the export threw away the outlines. Tracing recovers a very good approximation: the same shapes, the same palette, edges placed from the anti-aliasing rather than guessed. It does not recover the original curve construction, so if the design agency still exists, ask them first.
The three things that make a traced logo usable are a small palette, a low node count and clean interior holes. A trace with four hundred nodes per letter is technically vector and practically unusable — nobody can kern it, and a cutter will stutter along it.
Not uploading matters more here than anywhere else on this site. An unreleased brand mark going through a stranger server is a real problem for a real client, and the honest way to avoid it is not to have a server in the path at all.
How it works
Drop the logo
PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP or GIF. It is traced in this tab and never leaves it.
Cut the palette down
A brand mark usually has two to five colours. Set the palette to that number so the trace merges the anti-aliased in-between shades.
Check the node count, then export
Low node counts are what make a traced logo editable. Export SVG for editing, PDF or EPS for print, DXF for cutting.
Benchmark
Measured, not marketed. The corpus, the method and every figure the run produced are published in full.
Methodology → /benchmarks- boundary error, p95
- 0.09 px
- region-count error
- 0.000
- node-count ratio
- 1.00×
Questions
- 01Will the traced logo be identical to the original vector?
- Close, not identical. Tracing recovers the shapes and the palette from the pixels; it cannot recover how the original curves were constructed. For most uses — print, cut, embroider, resize — the difference is invisible. For a brand guideline document, get the original.
- 02What resolution should the source be?
- Bigger is better up to a point: more pixels means the anti-aliasing carries more evidence about where the edge is. Past a few thousand pixels across, a flat mark stops improving because there is no more information in it.
- 03Is my client logo uploaded to a server?
- No. The tracer is WebAssembly running in a Web Worker in this tab, so the pixels stay on your machine. There is no upload step, which is also why it keeps working with the network off.
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