[HN Gopher] 120k SVG logos, also available in PNG format
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120k SVG logos, also available in PNG format
Author : astonfred
Score : 136 points
Date : 2022-05-18 15:11 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (vectorwiki.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (vectorwiki.com)
| omoikane wrote:
| The search box suggested "spotify" and "twitter" as examples,
| both returned some duplicate results. Does the 120k number count
| those duplicates?
| dymk wrote:
| Searching for 'Airbnb' brings up the YCombinator logo
| (presumably because of the investment relationship). Still
| weird.
|
| Ignoring that one, it came up with three airbnb logos, two of
| which are the same, and the third is the lone "belo" symbol.
|
| 33 results for "Facebook", most of which are emoji.
|
| Guessing 120k is closer to 10k to 20k actual unique logos.
| parhamn wrote:
| It's funny we're on "hackernews" and all of the comments are
| about licensing and legality (before you explain, I get why).
| [deleted]
| Fileformat wrote:
| Shameless self promotion: I have a search engine for svg logos
| that includes Github, Wikipedia & a few others:
| https://logosear.ch/
|
| I avoid legal conundrums by not hosting any of the images and
| just linking to the upstream host.
|
| I'd love to add vectorwiki to the sources if you'd let me index
| it!
| ksajadi wrote:
| There is also this https://worldvectorlogo.com/
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| Now what we need is some plugin like Iconify [1] for Sketch to
| pick it up and allow inserting vectors from it right into a
| design file.
|
| [1]: https://iconify.design/
| astonfred wrote:
| Yep, that's a good idea. I'd like also to open it the other way
| to designers once it gets some traction. Step by step.
| marcodiego wrote:
| License?
| whartung wrote:
| There's two concerns here.
|
| First, the license for the individual pieces of work. There's a
| generic "wiki" license on the site which essentially says they
| own everything save for "fair use", which muddy as heck.
|
| What I'm talking about here is not the use of any particular
| likeness, but of the rendition of that license. Since you have
| an SVG file, that, in itself, is licensable content - like any
| software.
|
| Next, is the actual use of the likenesses. If I get a Twitter
| logo from here, can I use it? That's more a trademark issue and
| probably falls under that umbrella.
|
| But you can see how you may be allowed to use a likeness
| because of trademark policy, but not allowed to use THESE,
| SPECIFIC incarnations of a likeness.
|
| Vice a versa, these folks may well let you use their
| likenesses, but the trademark issues prohibit it.
|
| So, anyway, in the end, there's not a single license involved
| here, me thinks, but potentially two.
| mdoms wrote:
| Fantastic resource which is sadly very America-centric. I
| searched multiple major Australian and NZ brands (Penright,
| Supercheap Auto, Marmite, Vegemite, Irwin, Bunnings, Enzed) with
| no or poor results. But every American brand I could think of is
| present.
| astonfred wrote:
| Thanks for your kind words. Do not hesitate to suggest some
| additions. We've already added close to 100 user submissions
| over the last 3 days. It's also a nice way for some startups to
| gain a bit of exposure (you can provide a description and a
| link to your site).
| samtimalsina wrote:
| As others have pointed out, licensing is unclear. It would be
| nice if each logo could link the official branding guidelines
| page when possible. For example, here are Twitter[1] and
| Spotify[2] branding guidelines.
|
| As for if you can freely distribute these logos, I would consult
| a lawyer. It could be fair use, but I would not risk it.
|
| [1] https://about.twitter.com/en/who-we-are/brand-toolkit
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| [2]
| https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/design-a...
| donmcronald wrote:
| > It could be fair use, but I would not risk it.
|
| I've always wanted to know the answer to this. There are _tons_
| of themes and templates for websites that very obviously ignore
| the branding guidelines. I wonder if the guidelines are even
| enforceable.
|
| If those guidelines are enforceable, isn't it risky for brands
| to ignore all the misuse? I'm assuming that falls under
| trademarks for enforcement, so, IMHO (not a lawyer), they're
| all risking their logomarks by having such onerous branding
| guidelines that no one wants to follow them and then also
| failing to police the resulting misuse.
|
| I asked about this in some webdev communities a while back and
| the general consensus was that trying to follow the branding
| guidelines and asking for permission was a mistake. The
| feedback I got was that all you'd be doing is putting a target
| on your back.
| astonfred wrote:
| Thanks for your comment. Good idea re: the brand guidelines, I
| will share this suggestion with the team. We could add a
| dedicated field for that purpose. We also plan to add HEX / RGB
| Color references in the future. Users can download the logos to
| use them for non-commercial projects and, if appropriate, to
| link to their business partners, e.g. in the clients' / case
| studies section of their website (which is a typical use case).
| There is an informative notice on each image page.
| goalie wrote:
| Interesting, how'd you obtain the license to freely distribute
| these? ;)
| astonfred wrote:
| Just adding a quick comment to mention that if you want to add
| your own SVG logo to the site, you can do it by submitting it via
| https://vectorwiki.com/upload Don't forget to add a short
| description, tags and a link. Cheers.
| egKYzyXeIL wrote:
| Forgive my ignorance, I don't know a lot (anything) about
| licensing, but I see a lot of comments asking about licensing in
| particular. If this isn't legal, then what about icon packs for,
| for example, VSCode or Android Launchers and similar?
| notjustanymike wrote:
| There seem to be some issues with relevance sorting. A search for
| "Microsoft" yields many "Microsoft" projects before the core
| "Microsoft" logo. Similar issues with other logos - you'd expect
| exact match to take precendence.
| astonfred wrote:
| Thanks for your comment. We'll improve relevancy in the future.
| easytiger wrote:
| Are these all "hand made" or are they autogenerated in some way?
| s1mon wrote:
| If this was accurate and legal, it would be super useful. I've
| worked on countless projects where the client was some large
| company and needed their official logo on a product. It often
| takes them a surprising amount of time to dig around and get the
| logo in its official form.
|
| IANAL, but how is this possibly legal? Assuming it is magically
| legal, how do we know that the logos are accurate and not just
| some random person on the internet redrawing the logo from a bad
| scan?
|
| This is also missing the info which would be in official branding
| guidelines around the exact PMS colors, and any whitespace
| requirements. Ideally there would be PMS numbers and sRGB values
| for each color. In addition to SVG and PNG, exporting in EPS and
| DXF would be helpful.
| onion2k wrote:
| _This is also missing the info which would be in official
| branding guidelines around the exact PMS colors, and any
| whitespace requirements. Ideally there would be PMS numbers and
| sRGB values for each color. In addition to SVG and PNG,
| exporting in EPS and DXF would be helpful._
|
| I can't help thinking that if you care about exact colors and
| spacing you wouldn't be downloading the logo from a website
| like this one.
| sudden_dystopia wrote:
| As far as I know, It's only illegal if you reuse them for
| commercial purposes. Granted, that is most use cases. But if I
| wanted to say make a sports team logo vinyl sticker for my own
| car, that is legal.
| goalie wrote:
| The typical Fair Use exceptions apply. The primary concern is
| typically: does it appear that the company using the logo
| endorses the company represented by the logo?
|
| I'd argue here that it doesn't, but would I risk a lawsuit on
| it?
| unwiredben wrote:
| I looked at several logos and saw that they were missing the
| registered trademark or trademark symbols. Those shouldn't be
| removed when making the vector versions, as they're part of the
| logo.
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