● 100% OFFLINE — YOUR LOGOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR MACHINE

Trace, refine & hand off
brand-ready vectors.

Vecspine converts raster logos into clean, layered SVG, PDF and DXF — then gives you a full touch-up toolkit to refine the trace before it reaches your pro editor. All offline, all yours.

No uploads No subscriptions Perpetual licenses Windows · macOS · Linux
→ Adobe Illustrator → CorelDRAW → Affinity Designer → Figma → Inkscape
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PNG · RASTER
SVG · VECTOR ∞
Built for designers

The prep stage your pro editor deserves.

Not just "image to SVG" — a production tracing studio that refines your trace so it lands in Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Affinity, Figma or Inkscape clean, layered and ready for final polish.

Potrace-Powered Tracing

Industry-standard curve fitting for mono and layered flat-color logos — smooth béziers, not jagged polygons.

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Brand-True Palettes

Foreground-only color extraction keeps whites white and navies navy. Double-click any layer to recolor it instantly.

Exact Transparency + Defringe

Alpha-accurate backgrounds and a selective edge-choke that kills anti-alias halos without eating thin strokes.

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Designer Controls

Detail, smoothing, corner protection, min-area and despeckle — live preview, zoom & pan, before/after compare.

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Click-Select & Marquee

Click any traced shape or drag a rubber-band to select many. Move, scale, recolor or delete the whole group in one gesture.

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Drag to Move, Slider to Scale

Grab a shape and drag it. Or use the Size slider to scale 50–200% live around the group's center — with full undo.

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Group & Subtract

Ctrl+G groups shapes, Ctrl+U dissolves layers, Ctrl+- punches holes (Pathfinder-style) into the bottom shape.

Text Tool → Outlines

Drop type onto the canvas; fonts are baked into bézier outlines on placement — no font dependencies, no missing-font dialogs downstream.

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Color Separations → Plates

Every flat color becomes an isolated plate — swatch, HEX, nearest ink name, coverage %. Click a row to preview that spot alone on the canvas.

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Pro-Editor Handoff

Vecspine is the prep stage, not a replacement: refine color, geometry and grouping here, then finish the last 5% in Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Affinity, Figma or Inkscape.

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SVG · PDF · DXF Export

Layered SVG that opens cleanly in Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Affinity, Figma & Inkscape; true vector PDF for print; DXF for sign makers and laser cutters.

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Batch Mode

Drop a folder of client logos, get a folder of clean vectors. Perfect for agencies and rebrand sprints.

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Icon & Favicon Kit

One click exports 16–512px PNGs plus a multi-size favicon.ico from your traced vector.

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Palette Handoff

Export extracted brand colors as CSS variables, JSON, or an SVG swatch sheet for your style guides.

Full Undo / Redo

Every recolor, move, scale, group, subtract and text-add goes on the undo stack. Ctrl+Z undoes a whole gesture in one step.

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SVG Import & Edit

Open external SVGs directly and edit them with the same tools — recolor layers, move paths, punch holes.

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Private by Design

Offline Ed25519 license activation. Unreleased brand assets never touch a server — ever.

Workflow

From raster to handoff-ready in three steps

Vecspine does the tedious 95% — tracing, cleanup, palette and structure — so your time in the pro editor is spent on design, not janitorial work.

Drop your logo

Drag & drop PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP, TIFF — or an existing SVG. Vecspine auto-detects mono vs. flat-color and picks the right engine.

Refine the trace

Slide detail, smoothing and corner protection. Press V to select shapes, drag to move, scale with the Size slider, recolor, group, subtract, add text — until it's 95% there.

Export & hand off

Layered SVG, print PDF, DXF, color separations, icon kit and brand palette — or batch-separate entire folders for the press. Drop outputs straight into Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Affinity, Figma or Inkscape for the final polish.

More than a tracer

One trace. Four production lines.

Vecspine doesn't stop at "image → SVG". Every trace feeds a small production bench that turns your logo into the assets the rest of the project actually needs — no second tool, no re-drawing.

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AGENCIES · REBRANDS · ARCHIVES

Batch Convert Folder…

Point Vecspine at a folder of client logos and walk away. Every PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP and TIFF is traced with your saved settings in a single pass — progress tracked per file, failures logged separately, outputs landing beside the originals with matching filenames.

  • Folder → folder, one click
  • Per-file progress + failure log
  • 50 logos in well under a minute
  • Studio & Agency tiers
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WEB · PRODUCT · APPS

Export Icon / Favicon Kit…

One click renders your traced vector at every size browsers and operating systems expect — 16 to 512 px PNGs plus a bundled multi-size favicon.ico. Crisp at every zoom level because each size is rendered from the vector, never resampled from a raster.

  • 16 / 24 / 32 / 48 / 64 / 128 / 256 / 512 px
  • Multi-size favicon.ico (16/32/48)
  • Rendered from your vector, not a bitmap
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SIGN MAKERS · LASER · CAD

Export DXF (CAD / laser)…

The same trace becomes machine-ready geometry: R2010 DXF with one layer per extracted color, Y-up coordinate space, and curves flattened to polyline segments your cutter understands. Ready for vinyl plotters, CO₂ lasers, CNC routers, AutoCAD and LibreCAD.

  • R2010 · per-color layers
  • Y-up coords, flattened curves
  • Tested on cutters, lasers & CAD
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PRINT SHOPS · SCREEN PRINTERS

Export Color Separations…

One click isolates every spot color into its own plate — single-color vector plus transparent print-res raster, plus a JSON report naming each ink with coverage %. Batch-separate whole folders of logos into ready-to-film plate sets.

  • One .svg + .png per plate
  • Nearest ink name + coverage %
  • Batch whole folders of logos → full plate sets
  • JSON report for the press
See it in motion

Sixty-second guides, no narration needed.

Short screen-capture clips of the exact workflows you'll run every day — served from your own videos/ folder or streamed from YouTube. One click opens the source full-size.

GUIDE 01▶ ~60 s clip

Drop → trace → done

Watch a client PNG become a clean, layered SVG in under a second — live before/after, transparency intact, palette extracted on the fly.

GUIDE 02▶ ~60 s clip

Select, move, scale

Marquee-select the tagline, drag it into place, nudge the Size slider — every gesture on the undo stack, ready to roll back in one Ctrl+Z.

GUIDE 03▶ ~60 s clip

Brand-true in two clicks

Double-click a palette swatch, paste the brand HEX, done — whites stay white, navies stay navy, no manual path-hunting.

GUIDE 04▶ ~60 s clip

Holes without Illustrator

Ctrl+G to group, Ctrl+- to punch a Pathfinder-style hole, Ctrl+U to dissolve a layer — the counter of an "o" stays a counter.

GUIDE 05▶ ~60 s clip

A folder in, a folder out

Fifty archive logos converted in one pass — per-file progress, failures logged separately, outputs named to match the originals.

GUIDE 06▶ ~60 s clip

SVG · DXF · icons, one pass

Layered SVG for the pro editor, R2010 DXF for the laser cutter, and a full favicon kit — all from the same refined trace.

GUIDE 07▶ ~60 s clip

Spot-color plates, one click

Open the Plates tab, click a row to isolate that ink on the canvas, then File → Export Color Separations — one .svg + transparent .png per color, plus a JSON press report.

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Whole folder → plate sets

File → Batch Color Separations picks an input folder and an output folder, then processes every raster and SVG in a single pass — each logo gets its own numbered plate set plus a combined press report.

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Pricing

Own it forever. No subscriptions.

Perpetual licenses with offline activation. Free major-version updates within your generation.

Solo

$39
one-time · 1 machine
  • Full tracing engine
  • SVG · PDF · DXF export
  • Recolor, move, scale & group
  • Text tool & subtract
  • Color separations (Plates)
  • Icon / favicon kit
  • Email support
Buy Solo

Agency

$149
one-time · 10 machines
  • Everything in Studio
  • Team-wide license ledger
  • Priority email support
  • Free re-bind when you upgrade hardware
Buy Agency

Every license starts as a free 14-day / 20-trace trial — no account, no card, no uploads.

FAQ

Questions designers ask us

Does it really work without internet?

Yes. Tracing, licensing and activation are 100% local. You can run it on an air-gapped machine in a print shop or studio.

Does Vecspine replace Illustrator / CorelDRAW / Affinity?

No — and it doesn't try to. Vecspine is the prep stage: it handles tracing, cleanup, palette extraction and structure so your pro editor receives a clean, layered vector. Your editor stays the home for final art, layout and print production; Vecspine just makes sure what arrives there is already 95% done.

Will the output open in Illustrator / Figma / Inkscape?

Yes — exports are clean, layered SVG with grouped color layers and editable paths, plus true vector PDF. CorelDRAW and Affinity Designer open the same files without issue.

Can I refine the traced shapes before handing them off?

Yes — that's the whole point. The built-in editor lets you click or marquee-select shapes, drag to move, scale with the Size slider, recolor per shape or layer, group / ungroup, punch holes and add text as outlines. Get the trace right in Vecspine so the final polish in your pro editor takes minutes, not hours.

Can I import an existing SVG and edit it?

Yes. Open any SVG and the full editor toolkit (select, recolor, move, group, subtract, text tool) applies — attribute fills, style fills, and CSS fills are all handled.

What are color separations?

Screen printers and spot-color workflows need one file per ink. Vecspine's Plates tab lists every flat color with its HEX, nearest ink name and coverage %. Click any row to isolate that plate on the canvas; File → Export Color Separations writes one .svg + transparent .png per plate plus a JSON press report — no manual isolate-and-export dance in Illustrator.

Can I batch-separate a whole folder of logos?

Yes — File → Batch Color Separations picks an input folder and an output folder, then processes every PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP, TIFF or SVG in a single pass. Each logo gets its own numbered plate set plus a combined batch-separations-report.json. Ideal for screen-print shops processing multi-client rebrands. Available on the Studio and Agency tiers.

How does Batch Mode work?

Choose an input folder and an output folder, pick your trace settings once, and Vecspine converts every supported image in the source folder in a single pass. Progress is tracked per file, failures are logged separately, and outputs land next to the originals with the same base filename. Ideal for rebrands, client onboarding batches, and converting archive logos. Available on the Studio and Agency tiers.

Is the DXF usable on laser cutters and sign plotters?

Yes. We export R2010 DXF with one layer per extracted color, Y-up coordinate space, and all curves flattened to polyline segments the machines understand. It's been tested on vinyl cutters, CO₂ lasers, CNC routers and AutoCAD / LibreCAD.

What sizes does the icon / favicon kit include?

One click generates 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 128, 256 and 512 px PNGs plus a bundled multi-size favicon.ico (16/32/48 inside) — exactly the set browsers and OSes expect. All rendered from your traced vector, so every size is crisp.

What palette formats can I export?

Three, depending on your handoff: CSS custom properties (:root { --brand-primary: #189AD3; }) for web, JSON ([{name, hex}]) for design systems, or an SVG swatch sheet you can drop straight into Figma or Illustrator.

Does the text tool ship fonts with the SVG?

No — and that's by design. Text placed with the T tool is baked into bézier outlines the moment you click the canvas, so the exported SVG has zero font dependencies. Your client's printer, Figma, or Inkscape will never ask for a missing font.

Which raster formats does it accept?

PNG, JPG / JPEG, WEBP, BMP and TIFF — anything a client typically emails. You can also drop existing SVGs to edit them with the same toolkit.

How fast is a typical trace?

A logo-sized PNG (1000 × 1000 px) traces in under a second on modern hardware. Larger artwork (4K+) takes a few seconds. Batch mode scales linearly — 50 logos process in well under a minute.

How far back does undo go?

Fifty operations. Every recolor, move, scale, group, ungroup, subtract and text-add goes on the stack; bulk operations count as a single step so one Ctrl+Z rolls back an entire gesture.

What happens when my trial ends?

Preview and tracing keep working; exporting locks until you activate a license key. No files are held hostage — your trial exports remain yours.

I got a new computer. Do I lose my license?

No. Email us your new Machine ID and we re-issue a bound key — free for Studio and Agency tiers.

Can it trace gradients or photos?

Vecspine is optimized for logos: mono marks, flat-color brands, badges and line art. Photographic images are better handled by dedicated photo tools.

How is this different from Illustrator's Image Trace or online converters?

Three big differences: (1) everything runs offline — your clients' unreleased logos never leave the machine. (2) Image Trace hands you raw paths you then clean up manually; Vecspine hands you a refined, layered, brand-correct vector — plus instant separations for screen printers — so your time in the pro editor is spent on design, not cleanup. (3) perpetual license, no subscription, no per-export credits.

Ready to stop cleaning up live-trace output by hand?

Trace and refine offline with Vecspine, then hand flawless vectors to Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Affinity, Figma or Inkscape.