Hi-res credit card logos (Visa, MC, Amex, Discover)

I was working on a shopping cart UI recently, and I was shocked by the dearth of hi-res credit card logos out there. Not only that, but there are a lot of previous brand logos kicking around out there. You think with all the e-commerce going on, the credit card companies would want to go out of their way to provide high-quality, up-to-date images of their brands. Not so. I could find nothing of the sort on any of the credit card web sites. So I created my own.

I started with the largest logos I could find (Tin Eye was a great image search tool for this), then used Photoshop to remove the compression artifacts and correct the colors. The Amex logo was impossible to fix, so I ended up recreating it in vector form in Illustrator, then applied the blue gradient in Photoshop.

Here is a ZIP archive containing all four high-res credit card logos. Enjoy. If you like them, link back to this page from your blog, Delicious, Digg, or wherever.

Update: After a tip in the comments, I compiled this set of vector credit card logos. I had to re-created the AmEx one myself, so it's not exactly right. But good enough until these companies get their act together and provide these assets on their own sites.

Comments

[Arthur Klepchukov]

Nice job! I like your simplification of the Discover and Visa logos.

P.S. Your captcha doesn't work in Opera 9.5 on OS X.

[Dave Cortright]

I can't take credit for the designs. Those are the updated logos for those brands. Check out http://visa.com and http://www.discovercard.com/

[kyle]

Thanks! Used the logos on a mass post mailing to our 2500 customers

[Pete]

I tend to grab vectors for any popular logos such as these from brandsoftheworld.com.

Nice job though.

[Skip]

I needed these logo's for a PowerPoint presentation, great stuff, thanks

[William]

Just another "thank you" from someone that is appriciative of your work! Great job! -William

[alex]

Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!

[Michelle Smythe]

Brilliant - just what I was looking for! Many Thanks for hard work.

[Jackie]

THank you!

[Hector]

Thank you. Thanks for sharing. Will share something on your behalf. Take care.

[Chris]

Just what I needed for our new brochures, thanks.

[Kiera]

THANKS SO MUCH!

[Jessica]

Thanks! You'd think these companies would provide these, but no!! These are the best images I've seen- thank you!

[Joshua Cripps]

Thanks so much for putting these together. Helped me make a much more professional-looking sign.

[fumble]

Vector CC logos? I must be dreaming. Thanks!

[Bob R]

Thank you! Was doing a brochure and all I had were vector graphics from 2001! Did a quick image search and you came up at top. Thank you for putting these out there for us!

[Anonymous]

Oh thanks i love you so much!

[Keeton]

Thanks Dave! Will be using these with our new site design.

[Brandy Linn & Midwest School Shows Staff]

Thank you so much. We are exhibiting a PTO / PTO school trade show next week and needed hi-res credit card logos for our signage. These are better than anything else available on the web (trust us...we looked). You have made the lives of the Midwest School Shows office staff a little less stressful this week. Thanks again!

[tom]

Great work sir.
I assume since you recreated the Amex logo you have the typeface. I have been trying to find that damn font ages now but with no joy, please please please tell me it's name!!
I will pay you in internet karma :)

thanks tom

[Dave Cortright]

As far as I know, there is no typeface for the AmEx logo. Generally logo type is hand drawn, or at least significantly tweaked from the font that it came from.

As for the logo I created, I used vectormagic.com to create an outline, then cleaned it up in Illustrator.

[Dominic]

Thanks for this. I am sure the design community appreciates your work!
p.s., your contact form is not the most intuitive...

[Chris McCorkle]

Thanks for cleaning these up. They look excellent.

[Nancy Troske]

These were life savers for me today - I needed good vector images of these logos urgently to make a sign. My merchant account people did not send me any decals or signs. Thank you very much!

[Skews Me]

I'd like to see your logos reduced to individual same-sized images to include GIF/JPEG as PNG isn't well supported yet. Also, your single PNG image example including the old logos only complicates the color palette. Otherwise, great work.