Logos: vector row, not a raster that looks flat

SVG is the file. A logo that has to live as a favicon, a stitch file, a cut line, and a billboard is paths. A PNG that looks like a logo is pixels that survive one size. Asking a raster row for "flat vector style" is how a mark turns to mush the first time someone opens it in Illustrator.

Versely vs Recraft is the format page: Recraft is a vector-format image studio, often mistaken for a clean vector look on a PNG. Stay in Recraft's own canvas if the week is marks and icons and that desk is the point. Use Versely when the vector row is a file type you pick — and the next asset is allowed to be type, a photoreal still, or a clip — on the same bill.

The row is named for the object

Recraft 4 Text to Image is 4 credits, billed flat per call. It is pixels on purpose. Recraft 4 Text to Vector is 8 credits, billed flat per call. Same generic catalog blurb, different SKU name, different price. Do not save 4 credits by ordering the raster row and hoping a screen printer can trace it.

Recraft 4.1 Text to Vector is the row that lists the features in words: Text-to-vector, SVG, Vector-graphics. Also 8 credits, also flat. Recraft 4.1 Pro Text to Vector lists the same SVG features at 30 credits, with the catalog description calling out crisper paths, richer detail, and better prompt adherence. Recraft 4.1 Text to Image is the raster sibling — 4 credits in the compare table — and it does not become an SVG because you typed "logo."

When you need an SVG, not a raster is the walkthrough. This page is only the designer mistake: shipping a flat-looking PNG as the brand file.

Paths scale. Pixels pretend.

A raster is a grid. Scale it past native size and there is no more information. A vector is shapes. Recolor a region, cut a decal, drop the mark to 16 pixels — the geometry is still there. An upscaler adds pixels. It does not invent a cut line. That is the compare-page FAQ in one sentence.

Text-to-image is the launcher. The launcher is not the format. Pick the vector SKU when the deliverable is a path. Pick a raster Recraft tier when you actually want a still. Mixing them up is a file-type error, not a taste error.

Prompt the geometry, not the photograph. Flat colour, a named palette, hard edges. Photoreal skin and soft-focus blur are raster ideas wearing an .svg extension if the model fakes them as a thousand slivers. Two colours, navy and white, no gradients, is a brief a path model can keep.

Forty marks, one stroke

One logo lying is easy. A family of icons that share a stroke is a set. Recraft's reference_images pins a style across a batch in one session so glyph forty does not drift from glyph one. Review them as a set. Do not approve them one PNG at a time in a feed crop.

If the mark has to speak — words in the frame that must screenshot — that is a different specialist (Ideogram is the compare-page row for lettering in pixels). If the mark has to orbit as a product, flatten a raster and animate that; do not ask a path file to be a video model.

SVG is the file. Everything else is a picture of the file.

FAQ

Can I trace a Recraft PNG later and call it vector?

You can trace anything. That is a second job Recraft sells on its own API, and it is not a catalog generation row here. Generate the path from the brief if the deliverable is a path. Tracing re-introduces the cleanup the vector row was meant to skip.

Why is the vector row 8 credits when the raster Recraft 4 row is 4?

Because they are different files. Four credits of pixels is cheaper and wrong when someone downstream needs to select a shape. Eight credits of a text-to-vector row is the format price. Pro at 30 is the tighter-path tier, not a personality.

Does "vector style" in a raster prompt output SVG?

No. Raster Recraft T2I outputs raster. The compare page's whole point is that people still order a clean PNG and think they got a mark. They got a look.

Should I live in Recraft's app instead?

If the week is only marks and icons and you want that canvas as the desk, yes. If the next file is a talking plate or a headline that has to screenshot, the vector row is one catalog choice, not a second subscription. That is the vs, not a moral.