Tracing Paths...

Manual Trace

One trace per adjustment, with direct node editing. Open automatic candidate search.

Input

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Best with one dark mark on a light or transparent background. Output is one CSS-ready colour with no background.

Engine ImageTracer

Both engines reduce the source to the same one-colour, transparent target.

No benchmark yet.

Compares trace time, SVG bytes, path count, and path command count for the current image/settings.

B/W Threshold 128

Cleans up gray pixels/sketches

Point Reduction 1.0

Reduces the number of nodes

Noise Filter 8

Removes small specks and artifacts

Pre-Blur 0.0

Background Image 50%

Reference image opacity. Does not affect export.

Choose Compact or Precision before Normalize & snap. Compact uses a −9 to +9 grid; Precision uses a −99 to +99 grid with major guide lines only.

Use Normalize & snap to see path density.

Nudge X 0%

Offsets the whole icon within the grid. Small changes only.

Nudge Y 0%

Positive values move up in the normalized axis space.

Scale 100%

Rescales the whole icon before it snaps back onto the integer grid.

Drop one-colour artwork

PNG · JPG · WEBP / dark on light works best

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