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Trace a PNG, including transparent artwork, into scalable color or black-and-white SVG paths.
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How it works
Important
Keep an untouched copy of important source files. Browser processing depends on available device memory, and you should inspect every downloaded result before deleting the original.
Practical details
Trace a PNG, including transparent artwork, into scalable color or black-and-white SVG paths.
This is genuine raster tracing: VTracer clusters the pixels, follows shape boundaries, fits pixel, polygon, or spline paths, and writes SVG geometry. SVGO then removes redundant markup without converting the paths back to pixels.
The vector result can scale without bitmap pixelation, but tracing does not reconstruct original fonts, layers, or designer-authored shapes. Complex photos may be better kept as optimized AVIF, WebP, or JPEG files.
Questions
No. VTracer groups colors and fits real SVG path geometry. Lucaden's output test rejects files without vector paths and the result contains no embedded source image.
Logos, icons, diagrams, signatures, line art, flat illustrations, and high-contrast shapes work best. Photographs can create many paths, larger files, and simplified colors, so inspect the result closely.
No. The common Node Potrace package is GPL-2.0 and depends on Jimp. Lucaden instead uses the permissively licensed VTracer engine, which supports both color and black-and-white path tracing in WebAssembly.
Open-source foundations
Lucaden documents its standards sources, architectural references, and permissive runtime dependencies while keeping this workspace consistent with the Lucaden interface.