Generate a svg logo, then you can embed it in you README.md

Feature:

• Custom font, font size, letter spacing
• Generate individual path for every char
• Support any valid attributes and style
• Handily cli

Install

To use the logo command, install it globally:

$ npm install logo.svg -g

To use the JavaScript API, install logo.svg locally:

$ npm install logo.svg --save

If you need both the logo command and the JavaScript API, install logo.svg.js both ways.

Usage

CLI

$ logo [options]

Options:

  -l, --logo ??? ............. The logo text. Default is the `name` of the `package.json`.
  -f, --font ??? ............. Specify the font path or url.
  -s, --fontSize ??? ......... Specify the font size. Default `72`.
  -o, --output ??? ........... Specify the output path. Default `logo.svg`
  -c, --config ??? ........... Specify the `.logorc` file.
  -O, --overwrite ............ Overwrite when a logo file exist. Default `true`.
  -k, --kerning .............. Take kerning information into account. Default `true`.
  -d, --divided .............. Generate individual path for every char. Default `false`.
  -V, --version .............. Print the current version.
  -h, --help ................. You're looking at it.
  -h, --help ??? ............. Show details for the specified command.

Examples:

  $ logo
  $ logo -Odo ./logo/logo.svg
  $ logo --config ./logo/.logorc
  $ logo --help
  $ logo --help font
  $ logo --help config
  $ logo --version

JavaScript API

1var logo = require('logo.svg');
2// generate the svg string, then you can use it in you code
3var svg = logo.generate(options);

Options

font

The font's path or full url. If it's an url, we will load the font asynchronous then generate the logo.

If the path is relative, it is relative to the current work directory(process.cwd()).

If the path is a basename, such as fontName.ttf, we will fisrtly try to load it as a relative path, if that failed we will search it from the preset folder, and then search it from system and user fonts folders.

The preset folder is ./fonts/, contribute your fonts by pull request.

logo

The logo text. Default is the name in package.json.

x

Horizontal position of the beginning of the text. (default: 0)

y

Vertical position of the baseline of the text. (default: 0)

fontSize

Size of the text. (default: 72)

spacing

The letter spacing. (default: 0)

kerning

If true takes kerning information into account. (default: true)

divided

If true generates individual path for every char. (default: false)

grouped

If true groups the individual <path> with <g></g> element. (default: false)

title

If specified will generate a <title> at the root of <svg>. (default: logo)

desc

If specified will generate a <desc> at the root of <svg>. (default: null)

Styling the logo

Specify the padding of the <path> relative to the <svg>:

• options.padding
• options.paddingTop or options['padding-top']
• options.paddingRight or options['padding-right']
• options.paddingBottom or options['padding-bottom']
• options.paddingLeft or options['padding-left']

The <svg>, <path> and <g> elements can be styled by any valid attributes.

The generated <svg> has the following default attributes:

1{
2	'version'    : '1.1',
3    'xmlns'      : 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg',
4    'xmlns:xlink': 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink',
5    'role'   : 'img',
6    'width'  : width,
7    'height' : height,
8    'viewbox': [x, y, width, height].join(' ')
9}

We can add/update/remove by options.svg:

1options.svg = {
2	'version': '',     // remove this attribute
3    'role'   : 'logo', // update this attribute
4    'fill'   : 'red'   // add some custiom styles
5}

Note that the width, height and viewbox can't be specified.

Styling the <path> by options.path. If divided is true we can style the individual <path> element by options.path?, which ? is the index of each char in the logo:

1// style for every path(s)
2options.path  = {
3    'fill': yellow
4};
5
6// style the first char
7options.path0 = {
8    'fill': '#FF0000',
9    'stroke': '#000000'
10};

As the same options.g specified the style of <g> element.

.logorc

All the options can be specified in the following files:

• .logorc.js
• .logorc.yaml
• .logorc.yml
• .logorc.json
• .logorc
• The logo section in package.json

We will try to load configuration from these files order by order, stop until any file load succeed.

Example for .logorc:

1font: Origami-Mommy-Pixellated.ttf
2fontSzie: 72
3output: logo.svg
4# style the logo
5path:
6  fill: '#6ccb99'

Example for package.json:

1{
2  "name": "module",
3  "version": "1.0.0",
4 
5  "logo": {
6    "font": "Origami-Mommy-Pixellated.ttf",
7    "fontSzie": 72,
8    "output": "logo.svg",
9    "path": {
10      "fill": "#6ccb99"
11    }
12  },
13  
14}

Embed the logo

SVG does not work from README by design for security concerns ...

We have had to disable svg image rendering on GitHub.com due to potential cross site scripting vulnerabilities.

So, we can not embed by the raw url, rawgit.com solves this problem nicely. For each request, it retrieves the appropriate document from GitHub and, crucially, serves it with the correct Content-Type header.

Link to your logo.svg using the following pattern:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/<repo-owner>/<repo>/<branch>/path/to.svg

To ensure that the CDN always serves the version of the file you want, use a git tag or commit hash in the file's path instead of a branch name, and update the URL if you push a new version of the file.

So, instead of a URL like https://cdn.rawgit.com/user/repo/branch/file, use a URL like https://cdn.rawgit.com/user/repo/tag/file or https://cdn.rawgit.com/user/repo/commit/file.

The embed code looks like:

1![logo.svg](https://cdn.rawgit.com/<repo-owner>/<repo>/<branch>/path/to.svg)
2
3<img alt="logo.svg" width="500" src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/<repo-owner>/<repo>/<branch>/path/to.svg">

Demos

1font: 'gubblebum-glocky.ttf'
2logo: 'npm '
3output: './demos/gubblebum-blocky/npm.svg'
4path:
5  fill: '#cb3837'

1logo: 'divided'
2font: 'origami-mommy.ttf'
3output: './demos/origami-mommy/divided.svg'
4divided: true
5path:
6  fill: '#6af72e'
7path1:
8  fill: '#c6e03c'
9path2:
10  fill: '#fc428f'
11path3:
12  fill: '#cea2fd'
13path4:
14  fill: '#fb3f24'
15path5:
16  fill: '#3cc8f6'
17path6:
18  fill: '#ff3e74'

1logo: 'Blocked'
2font: 'blocked.ttf'
3output: './demos/blocked/blocked.svg'
4path:
5  fill: '#fc174f'

1logo: 'Square'
2font: 'mk-zodnig-square.ttf'
3fontSize: 96
4output: './demos/mk-zodnig-square/square.svg'
5path:
6  fill: '#fd742d'
7#  stroke: '#fd742d'

1logo: 'Gubblebum '
2font: 'gubblebum.ttf'
3output: './demos/gubblebum/gubblebum.svg'
4spacing: 10
5divided: true
6path:
7  fill: '#6af72e'
8path0:
9  fill: '#fc428f'

Related

• text2svg Convert text to svg path.
• loadrc Load runtime configuration files for your module.

TODO

• Support logo template.
• What's your suggestion? Open an issue.

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are highly welcome.

For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.