Logo Sizing & Layout
Articles about logo sizing & layout.
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How to Change Canvas Size in Photoshop
Enlarge, shrink or fit the canvas in Photoshop to give logo artwork more space without resizing it. Covers Canvas Size, the Crop tool, Reveal All, Trim and checks before export.
How to Expand the Canvas in Photoshop
Expand or resize the Photoshop canvas with the Canvas Size command, crop tool or Reveal All, keeping logo artwork unscaled, editable and ready for export.
How to Vectorize a Low-Resolution Logo
Turn a blurry, pixelated logo into clean, scalable vector artwork: when auto-trace works, how to redraw paths and type, and how to check and export the result.
Website Logo Sizes for Responsive Headers and Footers
There is no single standard website logo size. Learn how to size header and footer logos by height, handle responsive versions, and deliver vector files that stay sharp.
Choose Pixel Dimensions for a Reconstructed Logo
There is no single best pixel resolution for a logo. Learn how to size raster exports from a redrawn vector logo for each placement, screen and print job.
Aligning Brand Identity with Repositioning
How to align your visual brand identity with a repositioning, and what that means for the vector logo artwork, its editability and the rights to change it.
Upscale Pixel Art Without Blur: A Practical Guide for Pixel Favicons
Upscale pixel art and pixel favicons cleanly with nearest-neighbor resampling and whole-number scale factors, and when to rebuild the icon as pixel-aligned vector paths.
Pixel Art Downscaler: How to Shrink a Pixel Icon Cleanly for Favicons
How a pixel art downscaler works, why nearest-neighbor resampling and integer scale factors matter, and how to reduce a pixel icon or logo for favicon use and verify the result.
Pixel Brush in ibisPaint: Setup for Crisp Favicon Pixel Grids
How to set up a pixel brush in ibisPaint for hard-edged favicon artwork, what to check when edges blur, and why the result is raster rather than vector.
Best size for a logo
There is no single best logo size. Learn why vector artwork has no fixed size, how to size horizontal lockups on websites, and what to check before exporting.
Resize a Logo in Pixels
How to resize a logo to exact pixel dimensions: why vector artwork exports cleanly at any size, why raster logos lose quality when enlarged, and what to check before resizing.
16x16 Pixel Icon: How to Refine a Logo on a Tiny Pixel Grid
What a 16x16 pixel icon is, why a vector logo can't simply be scaled down to it, and how pixel-grid refinement makes a favicon legible at its smallest size.