Tracer

raster → vector, powered by VTracer (WASM), runs entirely in this tab

Palette

Colors 12

Lowering the count merges the most similar shades first; distinct accent colors are kept as long as possible.

1-bit (black & white only)

Seam-free layers (cutout)

Cutout mode carves each color into a non-overlapping region instead of stacking full shapes — cleaner for flat logo-style art, but slower on photos.

Transparent background

Click a swatch to remove that color — its areas take the nearest remaining color. Click it again to bring it back. The dashed swatch is the background.

Shape cleanup

Simplify (px) 1.2

Fitting tolerance. Higher values give fewer, looser segments; lower values follow the pixels more closely. In Smart mode a straight edge always becomes one clean line.

Corner angle (°) 60

A vertex that turns sharper than this is kept as a hard, unrounded corner. Turns gentler than this are treated as part of a curve.

Despeckle (min shape area, px²) 8

Line art

Trace thin lines as strokes

Only lines whose thickness falls between Min and Max (in the original image's pixels) become strokes. With auto-detect on, Max is set from the drawing's own line weights each trace — covering fine hatching and heavier outlines alike, but stopping before text or solid shapes that are clearly thicker; turn it off to set Max by hand, a little above your heaviest line. Raise Min to leave hairlines, texture and stray marks as filled shapes (0 = no minimum). Lines in range become a single centerline stroke with a matching width, instead of a filled outline on each side — cleaner, lighter, and easy to restyle. Thicker areas stay filled shapes. The background colour never becomes strokes. When a drawing pairs one dominant fine line weight with clearly heavier outlines, the heavy lines are traced first, on their own, and drawn on top; the fine lines are then traced up to them, so crossings and T-joins stay clean. Line smoothing re-centres each line between its two edges and irons out pixel and scan noise before fitting curves; 0 follows the pixels exactly, 1 suits most art, 2 for rough scans or hand-drawn lines.

Resolution

Trace at 700 px

Longest side of the image as traced, up to twice the original's size. A new image starts at its original size (capped at 1600 px) — shrinking it makes fine lines fade to grey and break up. With line-art strokes on, tracing never goes below the original size (up to 2400 px), whatever this is set to. Above 1× the image is smoothly upscaled first, which gives cleaner curves on small or low-resolution art. Lower it for faster previews on large photos.

Text

Detect text (OCR)

Recognized lines become real <text> elements, sized and spaced to match the original. Text among artwork and widely letter-spaced taglines are found too (each candidate row is read on its own). The OCR engine (Tesseract, about 5 MB) is downloaded from jsDelivr the first time; your image is never uploaded.

Drop an image here

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`Scroll`	Zoom in / out at the pointer (both panes together)
`Drag`	Pan
`Double-click`	Fit the image back in the pane

`Click` shape or line	Select it and show its nodes — a click within a few pixels of a line picks the nearest line, even right next to the one being edited
`Click` node	Select the node and show its curve handles
`Drag` node / handle	Move the node (handles follow) / reshape the curve
`Shift`+`Click` outline	Add a node at that spot
`Double-click` outline	Add a node at that spot
`Ctrl`+`Click` node	Delete that node
`Drag` empty space	Pan (a click without dragging selects)

`←→↑↓`	Nudge the selected node 1 px (`Shift`: 10 px)
`Tab` / `Shift`+`Tab`	Next / previous node
`Delete` / `Backspace`	Delete the selected node (or the shape, if no node is selected)
`Ctrl`+`Z`	Undo (up to 200 steps)
`Esc`	Finish editing the shape

Color · Width	Fill of a shape, or color and width of a line
X · Y · Node	Position of the selected node; Corner (free handles), Smooth (handles in line), Symmetric (in line, equal length)
Make line / curve	Straighten or curve the segment after the selected node
Reset	Back to the traced outline

`Ctrl`+`S`	Save session (image, settings, vector and edits in one file)
`Ctrl`+`O`	Open a saved session (or drop the file on the start screen)
`?` or `F1`	Open this help
`Esc`	Close this help