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Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#63

Surely there's a trademark protection concern here.

Nope, trademarks are used to distinguish brands and ensure their authenticity, and that's exactly what is happening here. If people used this to impersonate another company (e.g. to pretend they had gotten their endorsement) then that's a problem. But as long as this is used as part of a directory (or similar) service there is no copyright or trademark problem.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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post #35

I honestly thought this was going to generate a free logo and got really excited for some unknown reason? I guess I was wondering how it all worked, then I clicked through and it made way more sense. That was a wild ride!

Not quite free, but this does exist at a pretty low price point: https://www.tailorbrands.com/

Neat! Definitely checking these guys out.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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post #35

I honestly thought this was going to generate a free logo and got really excited for some unknown reason? I guess I was wondering how it all worked, then I clicked through and it made way more sense. That was a wild ride!

Not quite free, but this does exist at a pretty low price point: https://www.tailorbrands.com/

Very interesting indeed. Is there any portfolio, even for fake brands, so I can see the range of styles their logos may have?

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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post #35

I honestly thought this was going to generate a free logo and got really excited for some unknown reason? I guess I was wondering how it all worked, then I clicked through and it made way more sense. That was a wild ride!

The post mentions Gravatar, so actually it should do the same thing and return a generated image as a function of the domain, if no known one exists.

That's exactly what I thought. I told it to generate Google's logo and was then quite surprised when it actually produced Google's logo.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite free, but this does exist at a pretty low price point: https://www.tailorbrands.com/

Very interesting indeed. Is there any portfolio, even for fake brands, so I can see the range of styles their logos may have?

AFAIK there is not. Maybe one of their devs will see this and can provide a link or something though.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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post #35

I honestly thought this was going to generate a free logo and got really excited for some unknown reason? I guess I was wondering how it all worked, then I clicked through and it made way more sense. That was a wild ride!

Squarespace has a logo generator: http://www.squarespace.com/logo/. Watermarked version and low-res for free, $10 otherwise.
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