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A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Re: A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Post by Two4 »

Tagbert wrote: post #20
1-6 wrote: post #8

My technique of finding high quality logos involved looking for PDFs with logos embedded into them and then importing it to Illustrator. Earnings statements and digital product catalogs have interesting logos too like Bluetooth and CE/UL marks. It’s not exactly like the original but close enough. It’s enough to take the DWG into AutoCAD or CAD/CAM to generate high quality vinyl decals. I can’t tell how close to the o…

SVG does not store a bitmap. They are XML files and you can inspect the source code.

Au contraire, you very much can embed bitmaps into SVGs - it's often the only way to export gradient meshes in a manner supported by all renderers. This can be done via the plain ol' `image` tag with an external file, or a data URI to directly embed the encoded bitmap file.

Re: A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Post by phil9909 »

Two4 wrote: post #21
Tagbert wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SVG does not store a bitmap. They are XML files and you can inspect the source code.

Au contraire, you very much can embed bitmaps into SVGs - it's often the only way to export gradient meshes in a manner supported by all renderers. This can be done via the plain ol' `image` tag with an external file, or a data URI to directly embed the encoded bitmap file.

If you want to be extra cursed, you can also place a bunch of 1x1 ``s next to each other and color them individually. For extra points, you can combine consecutive pixel of the same color into a say 2x1 or 1x5 rects. Or make use of `` tags to implement a color pallete.

Re: A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Post by jagged-chisel »

fsckboy wrote: post #19
jagged-chisel wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Logo trademarked by the represented entity or its owner. SVG content (i.e. the text underlying the image) copyright to the person creating the SVG. I would personally take this as a) a demonstration of how to implement various things in SVG and b) a demonstration of the skills of the SVGs’ creator(s). I can’t imagine any reason I would ever need to place Meta’s logo on anything. Caveat: I’m in the USA. Could be diffe…

> SVG content copyright to the person creating the SVG. um... no. In the US, you can't take an image that I have a copyright to and turn it into an SVG and distribute it such that web browsers will render it into a facsimile of the image I own without infringing my copyright. It would be on you, not on the person viewing it. At best you've created a derivative work that you can stop me from distributing and I'd have…

You intentionally overlooked the parenthetical. I didn’t say the copyright on the rendered image would go to the SVG creator. There are, I’m sure, many creative ways to specify in SVG source how an image is rendered. Those commands, tags, whatever text directs the renderer are created from a creative process. The copyright for the final SVG text is indeed held by the creator.

That does not mean the rendered image copyright is held by the SVG creator.

Re: A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Post by sigsergv »

1-6 wrote: post #8

My technique of finding high quality logos involved looking for PDFs with logos embedded into them and then importing it to Illustrator. Earnings statements and digital product catalogs have interesting logos too like Bluetooth and CE/UL marks. It’s not exactly like the original but close enough. It’s enough to take the DWG into AutoCAD or CAD/CAM to generate high quality vinyl decals. I can’t tell how close to the o…

There is also https://www.brandsoftheworld.com with a lot of logotypes including old ones.
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