Rebuilding the VSC.eco Logo from PNG to Scaleable Vector Graphic

I carved out a few hours this evening to tackle a little project that’s been on my mind: turning the VSC.eco logo (shout-out to @vsc.network and @vaultec) into a true vector graphic. Everywhere I looked on the official website, the Discord server, and even in each user’s @peakd wallet i saw the logo, but always as a transparent PNG. And while PNGs are fine for many things, in 2025 it really feels like websites should be shipping their logos in SVG or another vector format for crispness at any size. After all, vector art scales cleanly, keeps file sizes small, and loads faster on every device.

So I opened Adobe Illustrator, dropped in the PNG, and started tracing by hand. Yes, you could fire up any auto-vectorization tool and let it churn, but in my 15+ years as a web developer and designer, I’ve learned that those automated results are almost always a mess: uneven curves, stray anchor points, jagged edges. For me, painstakingly redrawing each path by hand is the only way to get the curves smooth, the fills consistent, and the final file ready for production.

Here’s the kicker: the VSC team didn’t even ask me to do this. I’m doing it for fun, to sharpen my skills, and to give back to the community that’s been so supportive. Of course, I wouldn’t say no to a little recognition or even some compensation for the time I invested but that’s just icing on the cake. At the end of the day, I’m excited to share this clean, infinitely scalable version of their mark and make it easier for everyone to adopt a professional, vector-based logo going forward.

I kicked things off by laying down the bare bones of the logo in vector form just a handful of clicks in Illustrator, but enough to give me a solid framework to build on. Once I had those basic anchor points and paths in place, I turned my attention to the outer ring. I knew that getting that perfect circle with the smooth gradient would make or break the whole design, so I created two concentric circles one slightly smaller than the other and used Illustrator’s Pathfinder “Minus Front” operation to knock out the middle. What I was left with was a clean, single-shape ring that I could treat as one continuous object, ready to receive the color transitions that give the logo its signature look.

Next, I turned my focus to the “VSC” wordmark itself. Thanks to Illustrator’s initial trace, most of the heavy lifting was already done. I had vector outlines for each character. From there, it was a matter of cleaning up and unifying those shapes so each letter became one solid object. I zoomed in closely, welded overlapping anchor points, and removed any stray Bézier handles, ensuring that every stroke and counter-space was crisp and closed. With each glyph now a single, watertight path, I could treat them just like the ring: apply a smooth gradient across their surfaces and guarantee perfectly even fills. The final step was purely about balance and harmony... nudging and snapping the trio of letters until they sat dead-center in the circle, their proportions and spacing feeling just right. Once aligned, I grouped the text and ring together, ready to export a pristine, infinitely scalable SVG that’ll look sharp on any screen or print.

The only thing missing now is the beautiful color gradient. Some time ago, Adobe provided a completely new variant for color gradients. Normally, color gradients could only be created linearly or radially for the selected areas. With the new “Freehand gradients” function, however, it is now possible to add different positions to the shape and then define each of these with its own color. This opens up a whole new range of possibilities when it comes to adding an individual color gradient to a fill area and opens up many new design options for vector graphics that were previously only available for pixel graphics.

In the end, I now have a version of the VSC logo that is very close to the original PNG version of the logos, but is scalable. It is therefore suitable for business cards, large prints but can also be wonderfully stored as SVG at PeakD, for example, and of course it should also be exchanged on the VSC Eco website and therefore it can also serve as the basis of the media kit / press kit, which the VSC team can hopefully publish with their launch.

You know where you can reach me in the Discord - contact me and then we can talk about possible adjustments / changes to the logo. Thanks and best regards.

My VSC Witness runs under @louis.vsc
https://vsc.techcoderx.com/address/hive:louis.vsc/witness

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