The LogoBird Manifesto

Most AI logos are pictures of logos.

Some are useful drafts. Some have a real idea inside them. But a logo is not finished because it looks finished in a prompt window. It has to sit in a header, shrink to a favicon, export as a transparent PNG, hand off to a developer, and keep its shape when someone opens the SVG.

That is where most of them break.

Not because the idea is useless. Because the source is wrong. A raster file cannot become scalable because someone wants it to. A wide wordmark cannot become a favicon because the browser tab is small. An SVG with hidden images, unsafe markup, no viewBox, or path debris is not a production file. It is a problem wearing a vector extension.

LogoBird audits the source before anyone pretends it is finished.

We started with the audit because it is the honest layer. Before generation, cleanup, pricing, or taste, there is a simpler question: what do you actually have? The file either has usable vector structure or it does not. It either renders cleanly at small sizes or it does not. It either can produce a handoff kit or it cannot.

We do not redraw, vectorize, repair, match fonts, or manually clean up the mark. Not yet. We refuse that work until the system can do it honestly. A PNG stays a PNG. A bad SVG stays a warning. An eligible SVG can become a Production Kit because the source can support it.

The design principles still matter. Proportion, optical weight, negative space, type, color, and restraint decide whether a mark can last. But philosophy without files is just taste. LogoBird begins with the file because production is where taste gets tested.

This site exists because LogoBird started as a design blog in 2009. For a few years, it studied logos the slow way: by looking closely. The new LogoBird keeps that discipline, but points it at a more useful question. Can this thing ship?

Run the audit. If the source is ready, package it. If it is not, know before the logo reaches a developer, a printer, or a launch checklist.

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