Ever tried to enlarge a logo and watched it turn blurry and pixelated? That's the raster vs. vector problem — and it's one of the most common mistakes in branding and design.
Raster Images
Raster images (JPG, PNG, GIF) are made of a fixed grid of pixels. Every photo you take with a camera is a raster image. They work great for photos but have a hard limit — enlarge them past their original size, and they become blurry because the software has to guess at new pixels that were never actually part of the original image.
Vector Images
Vector images (SVG, AI, EPS) are built from mathematical paths and shapes instead of pixels. Because they're defined by math rather than a fixed grid, they can be scaled to any size — from a business card to a billboard — with zero loss in quality.
Why Logos Specifically Need Vector Format
- Logos get used at wildly different sizes — a tiny favicon, a website header, a huge banner — vector format handles all of these perfectly
- Print materials require high resolution — a raster logo that looks fine on screen often looks blurry or pixelated when printed large
- Professional printers and designers typically require vector files for things like signage, merchandise, and packaging
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Vector isn't always better — photographs, for example, can't practically be represented as vector shapes because of their complex, continuous detail and color variation. Vector format shines for logos, icons, and illustrations with clean, defined shapes — not for photo-realistic images.
Our free Image to Vector tool converts simple images and logos into scalable vector format, ready for any size use.