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Illustrator Logo Tracing: Rebuilding a Logo from a Scanned Print
How Illustrator's Image Trace turns a scanned logo into vector paths, where automatic tracing falls short, and when a manual redraw is the better route.
Matte White Color Code for Logo Design
There is no single official matte white color code. Learn why matte is a finish, which white and off-white values designers use, and how to specify white in vector logo files.
Bicycle Favicon: Designing a Vector Mark That Holds Up in Light and Dark Mode
How to design and deliver a bicycle favicon that stays legible at tiny sizes and works on light and dark browser tabs, from vector master to SVG and raster files.
What color is the Eagles logo
The Philadelphia Eagles logo uses midnight green, silver, black and white. Learn how the palette is described, why it differs from older kelly green marks, and how to handle its colors in vector files.
WCAG Color Contrast for Logos: What the Rules Require and How to Check Your Artwork
How WCAG color contrast applies to logos, what a contrast checker measures, and how to test vector logo colors for visibility across color vision differences.
How to Create an SVG Logo File
Learn how to draw or make an SVG logo file: build clean vector paths, convert type to outlines, export with sensible settings and verify the result before delivery.
How to Make a Logo Scan Strictly Black and White in Illustrator
Convert a scanned logo to pure black and white in Illustrator, not grayscale, using Image Trace's Black and White mode, a K-only fill, and checks for gray tones.
Are color palettes copyrighted?
In the US, a color palette alone generally can't be copyrighted. See where trademark law, licensed color libraries and logo artwork still limit how you use colors.
How to Extract an SVG Logo from a Website
Find out whether a website's logo is really an SVG, extract it with browser developer tools, repair missing styles and namespaces, and confirm the file is usable vector artwork.
2D Scaling in Computer Graphics: How Proportional Scaling Keeps a Vector Logo Intact
How 2D scaling works in computer graphics, why uniform scaling preserves a logo's proportions, and what vector paths, strokes and embedded raster images do when resized.
Persona Title Font: What It Is and What Can Be Confirmed
Looking for the Persona font? Why no single typeface is confirmed, how custom title lettering differs from an installable font, and what that means for vector logo files.
Logo Dimensions and Minimum Legible Sizes
There is no single normal logo size. Learn how vector logos scale, how to choose pixel dimensions for square and other exports, and how to set a minimum legible size.