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Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#83

Post by ARolek »

Killer work Alex! It's crazy you just rolled this out. We have been in development on something very similar but have yet to make a public push on the product. The main difference is we host the vector source file and build rasters from it. This helps maintain top quality at any size, and allows us to output to additional formats (i.e. PDF).

The product is still in alpha, but it's amazing how many similarities we came to with the URL scheme design. For example, image embedding:

" rel="nofollow">https://img.ogol.io/ example: https://img.ogol.io/ogol.io

we also support downloading

" rel="nofollow">https://dl.ogol.io/ example: https://dl.ogol.io/ogol.io

Each logo also has it's own page to make working with the asset outside of an API easy.

https://ogol.io/ogol.io/nn0ymd

Our approach requires companies to confirm their domains and associate a vector logo with the domain. Your strategy obviously provides a lot of logos right out of the gates. Logos are such a pain to deal with, it's great to see the problem being attacked from a few different angles.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#84

Post by [deleted] »

Hovertruck wrote: post #59
lowglow wrote: 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/

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Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#86

Post by maccman »

ARolek wrote: post #83

Killer work Alex! It's crazy you just rolled this out. We have been in development on something very similar but have yet to make a public push on the product. The main difference is we host the vector source file and build rasters from it. This helps maintain top quality at any size, and allows us to output to additional formats (i.e. PDF). The product is still in alpha, but it's amazing how many similarities we cam…

ogol.io is a pretty awesome idea! Love it.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#87

Post by jtreminio »

ryanSrich wrote: post #79
lowglow wrote: 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!

I thought the same thing but as a designer I had the opposite reaction. I was prepared to be offended.

Why in the world would this offend you?

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#88

Post by ryanSrich »

jtreminio wrote: post #87
ryanSrich wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the same thing but as a designer I had the opposite reaction. I was prepared to be offended.

Why in the world would this offend you?

Two reasons:

1. It degrades design as a profession. It's essentially saying that logo design can be done by an algorithm. "There's no creativity to it". Wouldn't you be offended if someone said a basic algorithm could eliminate your job? (perhaps you wouldn't)

2. It's an overly simplistic view of what a logo/brand identity is. You can't just pick out some basic shapes and text for your logo. You need color theory, contrast analysis, a brand strategy, a well developed concept, etc.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#89

Post by captn3m0 »

mukgupta wrote: post #80

I noticed that you are returning the company name in the title. https://logo.clearbit.com/fb.com .Is that intentional? Asking this because you provide a Company API too which is paid.

This API call is just returning a PNG image with almost no EXIF data. In that case, the title is set by browsers to the filename, which is equal to the domain name itself. Are you seeing something else in the title? (I see fb.com)

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#90

Post by jtreminio »

ryanSrich wrote: post #88
jtreminio wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why in the world would this offend you?

Two reasons: 1. It degrades design as a profession. It's essentially saying that logo design can be done by an algorithm. "There's no creativity to it". Wouldn't you be offended if someone said a basic algorithm could eliminate your job? (perhaps you wouldn't) 2. It's an overly simplistic view of what a logo/brand identity is. You can't just pick out some basic shapes and text for your logo. You need color theory, co…

> Wouldn't you be offended if someone said a basic algorithm could eliminate your job?

Of course not. In fact, I spend quite a large portion of my time automating most of my work, so I can do other, more interesting things.

Besides, if a company looked for and used a "free logo generator", would that company really be the type of client you wanted to pick up?

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