All articles · 2026-09-04

Why your vectorized logo comes out in the wrong colours — and how Curvora avoids it

Phantom colours, muddy blends and shifted brand tones are the commonest vectorization complaints. What causes them, and how a colour-aware engine prevents them.

Most tracers cluster every pixel — including the thousands of anti-aliased edge pixels that are blends of two real colours. Those blends pull the palette toward muddy in-between tones and spawn colours the artwork never had.

Only pixels that can define a colour

Curvora builds its palette from flat areas and the cores of thin strokes, never from edge blends. Each palette entry then snaps to the exact RGB value that dominates its flat pixels, so #E63C5A stays #E63C5A. Gradients are detected separately and exported as gradient fills instead of bands.

Check it yourself

The palette panel shows every colour with its coverage. Click one to see its hex value; merge, replace or remove anything you disagree with. The statistics bar reports the final colour count.