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It'll take me a little while to work my way through all of these; I was kind of hoping there would be a quick and dirty (and easy) way to just convert an image file to svg, but as I suspected, this is a much more involved process. The LibreWolf logo, I suspect, is probably one of the trickier choices I could have made for svg conversion/tracing, which is why I chose it.
EDIT: But take a look at these! These are from Betterbird; how did they get the png and the svg so identical-looking? Perhaps they started with the svg first . . . ?
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Yup. Might have been done in Illustrator but the end result is the same.
Good luck with your project.
With gradient pics the quickest way i usually do is Trace Bitmap the main shape in a single color an then add the color gradient later.
(the shape is a bit round because i was quick, but you can fine tune the setting)
@MattW03@lemmy.ca Thanks! Looks pretty sharp. I'll have to study your screenshot carefully . . . BTW, I'm using Inkscape from the Mint repos, which is verison 1.2; do you think it's worth upgrading to whatever it is now (1.4x I think?)?
I don't think so. Inkskape was already mature years ago. I just have a more recent version because i'm on an arch-base distro, mint is perfect for work.
Won't let me upload the svg, but I swear it looks identical to the one above. Sorcery!
Most competent graphic designers will always do logos as svg first, as its incredibly simple to convert that to various other formats - it can even be done with a script easily.
Using an svg as the base also means you can manipulate the file for other users much more easily, and even embed the svg as HTML code - which means no separate files to load on a webpage!