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Sketch2Vector Logo

From a pencil sketch to clean vector logo files, with an AI agent doing the tedious part and a person making every decision.

Not yet publicly available

Sketch2Vector Logo turns a photo of a hand-drawn logo — even a quick phone shot with shadows and guide lines — into clean, black, vector-only files: SVG, PDF, a transparent PNG and an editable VectorCraft document, in as many styles and weights as asked for.

It is a Claude skill with five small Python tools, wrapped in a workspace that splits the job into four stages. The agent does the tedious part: cleaning the photo, tracing it with VectorCraft's command-line tool, building each style, exporting, and checking its own output. A person makes every decision.

It removes paper, shadows, folds, handwriting, guide boxes and construction lines — but only the ones the person confirms are artefacts. Nothing about the drawing gets “improved” without asking.

Four styles

  • Faithful clean trace. The drawing, inked: line weights as drawn, the pencil wobble smoothed away.
  • Minimal monoline. One even line with rounded ends, in any weight.
  • Brush. Line widths follow the sketch but swell and taper smoothly, like a brush pen.
  • Precise symbol. A sketched element swapped for an exact shape — a hand-drawn clef becomes a real bass clef.

Every style comes solid, ready for print, cutting, embroidery or logo uploads, or as a hollow outline.

Four stages, a person checks each one

  • Brief. The best photo goes in, and the person's decisions are written down: what to keep, what to remove, which styles, weights and colour.
  • Ink. The photo becomes clean black-and-white ink. Check: real lines continuous, artefacts gone.
  • Build. Each style is built, with a preview and the exact commands used. Check: ends, joins and weights look right.
  • Export. Final files are exported and verified, with a plain-language report.

Every intermediate result is an ordinary file that can be opened and edited.

Built on a tool we vetted

Sketch2Vector drives VectorCraft, an open-source vector editor. The version it was built and tested with, 0.17.0, is the one we put through our sandboxed vetting method.

Read the VectorCraft case study

Honest limits

  • VectorCraft is alpha software. This was built and tested against 0.17.0, and its command-line tool may change.
  • It needs a person in the loop. In a test, a fresh agent with only the skill and a photo made both requested versions correctly: the brush version was excellent, the faithful trace a little rough until its smoothing was raised.
  • Photos matter. The more pixels the drawing has, the better; a cropped thumbnail loses line-weight detail.
License & disclaimer — Not yet determined

In development and not yet publicly available. Independent of, and not affiliated with, VectorCraft or its developers. Described here to show how we pair an AI agent's speed with a person's decisions.