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.