Add SVG logo

[JimiC]

Can we have the logo in SVG? Would really like to include it on our vscode-icons collection.

Thanks in advance.

[JanWielemaker]

I'm afraid I do not have that. I have a PDF version and can create .PNG at any resolution. Never found a PDF to SVG tool that manages to convert the logo without it getting ugly due to slightly different placement and colouring of the parts that constitute the logo.

[JimiC]

@JanWielemaker Thanks for the fast reply. I guess our only solution is to wait for an art designer to volunteer and create the logo in SVG.

Thanks again.

[JanWielemaker]

I'll try to contact the designer. Might not be easy as the original contact was rather indirect ...

[JimiC]

Any effort is highly appreciated.

[Anniepoo]

Jan - I seem to recall we tried to chase it down before, and discovered it was indeed made in photoshop, and hence didn't have a vector version available.

If I'm wrong, having a vector version would certainly be useful.

[JimiC]

If we could get our hands on the photoshop file then we might be able to extract it as an SVG (latest Adobe products give than ability).

[Anniepoo]

well, if you just want it as rasteerized element in SVG I can do that. How big?

[JimiC]

Well, rasterized won't do. The thing with latest Photoshop CC 2017 is that it can export the layers as vector paths, and we then can apply some Illustrator CC 2017 magic on them to match the coloring.

[Anniepoo]

Hmm.. and maybe I decided the original was photoshop after close inspection of the gradients made me realize they wouldn't be easy to match in illustrator. I tried to manually make a copy in illustrator without much luck.

[o314]

For what it's worth, i have a few days ago try to redesign the icon as svg by following the flat design pattern.

logo-swi-prolog.pdf

Some colors may be a bit dark. Contouring is relatively rough. I's a draft.

I put a pdf + zip of svg: logo-swi-prolog.zip since github does not allow to upload svg.

I put it in the public domain. Please note, that is a derivated work and some rights can apply.

[JanWielemaker]

Enjoy at http://www.swi-prolog.org/icons/vector/swipl-logo.svg Thanks to Steve Reeves (the designer).

[JimiC]

@JanWielemaker Can you check the link again?

[JanWielemaker]

If I click the link I get a familiar image :) Possibly you were too early and the image had not yet arrived on one of the backend servers. Can take a few hours before all is in sync again.

[JimiC]

Yeap. Now it's working. We really really appreciate all the effort. Many thanks to all for making this a reality. Much obliged.

[Anniepoo]

Hoot! Been wanting this a long time!

[Anniepoo]

So, when I see the image in chrome it's our familiar owl. When I ctrl-U it it looks like svg, When I import into illustrator I get pathws with all fill colors black, using the one inside the zip file, andan error if I 'save as' the image. one in zip file is 2K, d/ls are 400K, they're svg's with just rasters in them. Any way we can get the ai file?

[JimiC]

@Anniepoo @o314 version is just the png wrapped as svg. The version @JanWielemaker provided is pure svg. The xmpGImg:image tags you see are the filters that get rasterized because unfortunately, the logo doesn't use pure svg filters.

[Anniepoo]

turns out I've got a pdf that seems to come into illustrator as vectors.

[Anniepoo]

swipl-logo-as-vector.zip

[Anniepoo]

that's a zip with an ai file in it.

[JimiC]

The file seems fine to me.

[JimiC]

@Anniepoo What version of Illustrator do you have?

[Anniepoo]

AI CS5

[JimiC]

Here you go. Official logo in CS5 swipl-logo.zip

[sbrl]

I'm hosting an svg version of the ai file above (without the text) here: https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/images/logos/swi-prolog.svg

[JanWielemaker]

Looks nice!