I often need to find logos and was not impressed by the existing logo search engines, so, in classic bikeshed mode, I built my own. Because it makes total sense to try to compete with Google. And Wikipedia. And countless others (some of which I list on the alternatives page).<p>Why is mine better?<p><pre><code> - just logos
- instant results
- only SVGs
- hyperlinked directly to the source
- no right-click hijacking (or other dark patterns)
- totally awesome domain name
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It is open source (AGPLv3), so you can see the tools I use and how it works (and criticize my code). The sources have their own licenses, so be sure to check there before using.<p>It is still a work in progress and there are some glitches (I mean, who would use a percent sign in a file name? And I'd love to try to fix the Wikipedia redirected images if I could only find the source...), but I want to see if people find it useful.<p>So let me know what you think! And I'm always looking for more sources!
This is so good. I'm currently working on about 100 pages worth of content for our website and adding attribution+integrations to our partners we work with. The headache I'm having just Google'ing their SVG logos is about 2-3 minutes per logo. So about 15 minutes per page just looking for logos. So far, the last 5-6 I could remember were all included.<p>What's the source for these images? ie. None of our competitors have their SVG logos indexed.
I searched for Twitter - <a href="https://logosear.ch/search.html?q=twitter" rel="nofollow">https://logosear.ch/search.html?q=twitter</a> Literally none of those are Twitter's actual logo. They're all subtly wrong (dimensions, color, aspect ratio, etc). In a few cases they're <i>wildly</i> off. If I can't trust this as a source I'd still have to look up the real one. Maybe it's less of a problem for smaller companies whose logos won't get cloned as much, but if I put any of those Twitter logos in a presentation of a website I don't think I'd impress anyone.
Nicely done!<p>I've spot-checked few logos that I need at the moment, and most of them are already there. However, I've noticed that there is no IndieHackers logo in the database.<p>I wonder if it is possible to come up with the tool where you would enter the Home Page Url and the tool would then output an SVG file of round or square shape that could be used as an SVG icon to represent links to that site (from my site).<p>The tool could try to detect the logo image on the home page of the target site, vectorize and normalize it into square or circle. Or it could try to locate a Favicon in SVG format, if present. Or, if nothing else works, it could fall into some default case when the SVG icon would be created from the most dominant color (of the target site) and 1 or 2 letters of the site name.<p>Do you guys know of any such tool?
Thanks!
On a somewhat related topic: is anyone aware of an algorithm that would let people find related/similar symbols? On the symbology sub-reddit the most common question is "what is this symbol" and it would be very helpful to provide a kind of search engine.
I wrote a Sketch plugin[1] to search and insert SVG logos.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/soulchild/sketch-logo-fetcher" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/soulchild/sketch-logo-fetcher</a>
While collecting over a thousand SVGs for <a href="https://landscape.cncf.io" rel="nofollow">https://landscape.cncf.io</a>, I found that the SVGs often needed cropping and other optimization. So (with a colleague) I wrote and open sourced svg-autocrop, and made it available at <a href="https://autocrop.cncf.io" rel="nofollow">https://autocrop.cncf.io</a>.<p>Try it out for optimizing your SVGs.
I wrote this extension to easily copy SVG's with right-click.<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/svg-2-clipboard/pacmblooebolmbakblffejfmhmnojece" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/svg-2-clipboard/pa...</a>
Nice! I've needed something like this several times.<p>Two suggestions:<p>1. Almost gave up on waiting for it to load... thought the blank white page meant it was broken or getting the HN-hug-of-death. Maybe add a loading indicator?<p>2. There are "No matches for 'Logosear.ch'"
This is great, getting logos off sites is so tedious. What about the legality of using the logos (for example, to use AWS logos for certain purposes, you have to be a partner). Is that an issue for you to host the logos?