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Instant search of 200K+ SVG logos from 100 sources

logosear.ch

#svg logos#logo search#vector logos#logo download

251points
45comments
#186of 3,028 in 2020
Top 7%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

8 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 5 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.

Execution: 1 for, 4 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 againstPerformance: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Instant results and fast search

    From 3 comments
  • Useful for finding logos quickly

    From 3 comments
    • 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…
      chrisacky on HN
    • Nice! I've needed something like this several times. Two suggestions: 1. Almost gave up on waiting for it to load... thought the blank white page meant it was broken or getting…
      medmunds on HN
    • Nicely done! 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.…
      cryptoalex on HN
  • Only SVGs, hyperlinked to source, no dark patterns

    From 2 comments
    • 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…
      Fileformat on HN
    • Woah nice this works without JS, I wasn't expecting that !
      codegladiator on HN

Objections

  • Many logos are wrong, cloned or outdated versions rather than official logos

    From 3 comments
    • I searched for Twitter - https://logosear.ch/search.html?q=twitter Literally none of those are Twitter's actual logo. They're all subtly wrong (dimensions, color, aspect ratio,…
      onion2k on HN
    • Bare in mind that a lot of theses aren't the company's logos. They're copies people have made, and got wrong. If your parters are going to see their logo on whatever you're…
      onion2k on HN
    • Thanks for building this! I actually obsess about having high quality logos for companies in the pitchbooks I write, so have built a personal collection over time... it's not…
      airstrike on HN
  • Logo for the project itself and some queries like the project name return no matches

    From 2 comments
    • Did not find a logo for Logosear.ch though!
      dfee on HN
    • Nice! I've needed something like this several times. Two suggestions: 1. Almost gave up on waiting for it to load... thought the blank white page meant it was broken or getting…
      medmunds on HN
  • Page is jumpy as logos load one at a time

    From 1 comment
    • Looks useful. Feedback: the result rendering is very "jumpy" due to logos loading in one at a time. You could either render sized wrapper containers for each logo, or load them…
      the_duke on HN

Requests

  • Add more sources such as CNCF and Linux Foundation landscapes

    From 1 comment
    • I'm glad to see you're pulling from the CNCF landscape, where we have 1,400 individual curated SVGs. There are another few thousand across the other Linux Foundation landscapes…
      dankohn1 on HN
  • Add a loading indicator

    From 1 comment
    • Nice! I've needed something like this several times. Two suggestions: 1. Almost gave up on waiting for it to load... thought the blank white page meant it was broken or getting…
      medmunds on HN
  • Export to PNG, EMF or WMF formats

    From 1 comment
    • Thanks for building this! I actually obsess about having high quality logos for companies in the pitchbooks I write, so have built a personal collection over time... it's not…
      airstrike on HN
  • Find logos for sites by URL, such as IndieHackers

    From 1 comment
    • Nicely done! 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.…
      cryptoalex on HN

Questions

  • What are the sources and their licenses, and is hosting legal

    From 2 comments
    • 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…
      chrisacky on HN
    • 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).…
      lukevp on HN
  • Can similar symbols be searched by image

    From 1 comment
    • 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…
      impostervt on HN

Alternatives named

  • Logointern.com

    From 1 comment
  • ClearBit and RiteKit logo APIs

    From 1 comment
    • There are a few sites that do this, though none with SVGs. Search for "logo api" finds ClearBit and RiteKit, among others.
      Fileformat on HN
  • Detexify and Shapecatcher for symbol search

    From 2 comments
    • Your comment made me think of [0], you might be able to find out how it works. [0]: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
      tleb_ on HN
    • Unicode symbol search: http://shapecatcher.com/ LaTeX symbol search: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
      teddyh on HN
  • Sketch logo fetcher plugin

    From 1 comment
    • I wrote a Sketch plugin[1] to search and insert SVG logos. [1] https://github.com/soulchild/sketch-logo-fetcher
      soulchild77 on HN

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