What is PNG to SVG (vector) conversion?
This tool converts a PNG raster image to a vector — an SVG that redraws the graphic with mathematical paths, so it scales to any size without quality loss. The tracing runs entirely in your browser with no upload. SVG is a vector format that describes graphics with mathematical paths, so it scales to any size without quality loss and files are usually tiny. It is ideal for logos, icons and flat illustrations.
How to use it
- Select or drop in your PNG image.
- Pick a detail level (higher = closer to the original, larger file).
- Click Download to save the SVG.
When it works — and when it does not
Great for logos, icons, line art and flat illustrations with few colors — these trace cleanly and scale beautifully. Not for photos or complex gradients: tracing produces thousands of messy paths, a larger file and a poor result. For those, keep a raster format like PNG or WebP.
What is PNG to SVG actually good for?
Tracing a PNG logo, icon or simple illustration into an SVG vector pays off in one big way: it scales to any size without going blurry. The same file works for a business card, a vehicle wrap, a shop sign, large-format printing or a crisp high-resolution website — no more saving a separate bitmap for every dimension, and a clean vector file is usually tiny too.
Just know its limits: tracing only works well on flat, simple graphics with clear color areas. Feed it a photograph or an image full of gradients and fine detail and you'll get thousands of tangled paths — a file that's both huge and messy, and looks worse than the PNG you started with. Keep those images as bitmaps.
One row saves 94%, another grows 312% — the line is unusually sharp
This is the cleanest dividing line among the conversions we measured. The logo with transparency goes 28.8 KB → 1.7 KB (-94%) — geometry belongs in vectors, and moving it there discards the entire layer that was drawing shapes as pixels. The photograph goes 1.88 MB → 7.74 MB (+312%). The two middle rows mark the slope: the illustration +238%, the screenshot +52%. The test: count the colours in your image. A handful of flat ones → tracing wins, and wins big. Gradients, shadows, photographic texture → the tracer can only approximate with thousands of paths, so the file grows and the edges get dirty. If the traced file is larger than the original, that image was never vector material — this page will not turn it into one, it will only tell you so.