[HN Gopher] Show HN: Instant search of 200K+ SVG logos from 100 ...
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Show HN: Instant search of 200K+ SVG logos from 100 sources
Author : Fileformat
Score : 147 points
Date : 2020-06-14 13:07 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (logosear.ch)
(TXT) w3m dump (logosear.ch)
| chrisacky wrote:
| 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 having just
| Google'ing their SVG logos is about 2-3 minutes per logo. So
| about 15 minutes per page just looking for logos. So far, the
| last 5-6 I could remember were all included.
|
| What's the source for these images? ie. None of our competitors
| have their SVG logos indexed.
| onion2k wrote:
| 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 making
| it's probably a good idea to make sure you're using their
| actual company logo.
| Fileformat wrote:
| The images all link to their source. The complete list of
| sources is https://logosear.ch/sources/index.html
| ros86 wrote:
| Wow. That's pretty cool! Bummer that nothing comes up when you
| search for logosear.?ch ;-).
| Fileformat wrote:
| Recursion detected! Stack overflow. Core dumped.
| lukevp wrote:
| 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). Is that an issue
| for you to host the logos?
| Fileformat wrote:
| That's the beauty of a search engine: I'm _not_ hosting the
| logos. They are all hot-linked from the original source. Any
| takedown requests need to be sent to the source, not to me.
|
| And github, gitlab and wikipedia all allow hotlinking.
|
| The sources (each images is hyperlinked to its source) have
| their own licenses: the Wikipedia detail pages go into gory
| detail. The git repos hopefully have a LICENSE file.
| racl101 wrote:
| One neat side use for this is if you want to check if a company
| name is taken and how good is their logo.
| formercoder wrote:
| Logointern.com works pretty well too
| impostervt wrote:
| 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 this symbol" and
| it would be very helpful to provide a kind of search engine.
| sansnomme wrote:
| Neural network -> feature vectors.
| tleb_ wrote:
| Your comment made me think of [0], you might be able to find
| out how it works.
|
| [0]: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
| teddyh wrote:
| Unicode symbol search: http://shapecatcher.com/
|
| LaTeX symbol search: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
| medmunds wrote:
| 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 the HN-hug-of-death.
| Maybe add a loading indicator?
|
| 2. There are "No matches for 'Logosear.ch'"
| Fileformat wrote:
| I'm hosting on Google Cloud Run, and I turned up the max
| instances, so this is a good test. It seems to be handling it
| okay (though not perfectly) at the moment...
| onion2k wrote:
| 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, etc). In a few cases they're _wildly_ off.
| If I can 't trust this as a source I'd still have to look up the
| real one. Maybe it's less of a problem for smaller companies
| whose logos won't get cloned as much, but if I put any of those
| Twitter logos in a presentation of a website I don't think I'd
| impress anyone.
| kilroy123 wrote:
| Really fast! Nicely done.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| That's pretty useful!
|
| I'm surprised you could get the domain.
| soulchild77 wrote:
| I wrote a Sketch plugin[1] to search and insert SVG logos.
|
| [1] https://github.com/soulchild/sketch-logo-fetcher
| Fileformat wrote:
| 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 with Google.
| And Wikipedia. And countless others (some of which I list on the
| alternatives page).
|
| Why is mine better? - just logos - instant
| results - only SVGs - hyperlinked directly to the
| source - no right-click hijacking (or other dark patterns)
| - totally awesome domain name
|
| It is open source (AGPLv3), so you can see the tools I use and
| how it works (and criticize my code). The sources have their own
| licenses, so be sure to check there before using.
|
| It is still a work in progress and there are some glitches (I
| mean, who would use a percent sign in a file name? And I'd love
| to try to fix the Wikipedia redirected images if I could only
| find the source...), but I want to see if people find it useful.
|
| So let me know what you think! And I'm always looking for more
| sources!
| dfee wrote:
| Did not find a logo for Logosear.ch though!
| Fileformat wrote:
| Heh. You got me! That'll be an easy one to fix though
| the_duke wrote:
| 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 in in the background and only show them once ready
| (with a loading indicator somewhere).
| Fileformat wrote:
| I have tried various solutions, but nothing that works better
| than what's there now.
|
| I only force the height for the logos, not the width, so
| wrapping doesn't really improve things.
|
| Waiting to display until they are all loaded kills the
| "instant" tagline. I'm hotlinking the images, so some images
| can take awhile.
| whoisjuan wrote:
| In theory you should be able to get the natural height and
| width of the image before loading it. Not exactly sure if
| it works with SVGs but it does work with PNGs
| EmilStenstrom wrote:
| Yeah, you could get the size of the images at indexing
| time, and return that in the search result.
| Fileformat wrote:
| You are assuming that I actually load the image at index
| time: I'm really only indexing the file name.
|
| And getting the width/height of a minimized SVG requires
| rendering it (or at least more SVG mojo than I possess).
| setr wrote:
| He's suggesting your index store the filename, height &
| width, and retrieve all 3 on search
| airstrike wrote:
| 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 big, but it
| has the companies I care about.
|
| Some things I thought I'd share from that experience:
|
| * The hardest thing is knowing which logo is actually the most
| recent and therefore correct. Searching logosear.ch for, say,
| IBM, yields countless logos that are virtually identical, as
| well as some of their products (which is fine) but also many
| old logos like this[0], which I don't think is what your user
| would want to find 9 out of 10 times (i.e. as a user, if I'm
| looking for a niche / ancient logo, I don't mind doing the
| research on my own and understand it will take a while. But
| when I want "the right logo", I'll consider visiting a
| specialized logo search engine to get the right result and get
| it _fast_ )
|
| * In my experience, The best sources for finding the company
| logo in SVG format are:
|
| - company website header (hit or miss as SVG adoption at first
| was slow, but it's increasingly good for S&P 500 type companies
| and tech-savvy firms... anything outside of that venn diagram
| is pretty bad)
|
| - Wikipedia page either in English or in the language matching
| the company's headquarter (i.e. better luck with German
| companies in de.wikipedia.org)
|
| - For large companies where both of the above fail, I search
| for "company name filetype:pdf" and look for vector logos
| embedded into those files, then use Adobe Acrobat to extract
| them in a very manual and ugly process by deleting unnecessary
| pages / content and cropping, and then visiting
| cloudconvert.com to generate a SVG (hey, it works...)
|
| * One final comment is PowerPoint doesn't take SVG files, so I
| always have to convert them to .emf or .wmf before dropping
| them in, so maybe you should consider exporting your SVG file
| in other formats too, though probably not limited to just those
| two
|
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| 0.
| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_Logo_1956_1972.s...
| alessioalex wrote:
| You were not kidding about the 'instant results' part. I like
| that, as well as the domain name.
| cryptoalex wrote:
| 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.
|
| I wonder if it is possible to come up with the tool where you
| would enter the Home Page Url and the tool would then output an
| SVG file of round or square shape that could be used as an SVG
| icon to represent links to that site (from my site).
|
| The tool could try to detect the logo image on the home page of
| the target site, vectorize and normalize it into square or
| circle. Or it could try to locate a Favicon in SVG format, if
| present. Or, if nothing else works, it could fall into some
| default case when the SVG icon would be created from the most
| dominant color (of the target site) and 1 or 2 letters of the
| site name.
|
| Do you guys know of any such tool? Thanks!
| Fileformat wrote:
| There are a few sites that do this, though none with SVGs.
| Search for "logo api" finds ClearBit and RiteKit, among others.
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