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How to create a digital logo stamp online, step by step
4 September 2026 ยท Estamplab
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"How do I make my own logo stamp?" The design part takes three minutes. The part that decides whether it works is the file you start from, and that is where nearly every disappointing logo stamp goes wrong.
Open the stamp maker and start from any of these
For why logos break in ink at all, see art and logo stamps. For where the logo sits in the design, see logo stamps: putting your mark inside the ring. This page is the walkthrough.
Step 1: find the right logo file
In order of preference:
- An SVG, EPS or AI file. Vector. Scales to any size, and the one your designer or your brand folder should have.
- A PNG with a transparent background, as large as you can find.
- A PNG or JPG on white. Workable, and the white has to come out.
- A screenshot from your website. The worst case, and the most common. Small, compressed, and usually too soft to reduce cleanly.
If the only file you have is a screenshot, it is worth ten minutes finding the original before you start.
Step 2: reduce it to one colour
A stamp is one ink colour. Your logo probably is not.
Do not desaturate it, which turns colours into greys, and a stamp has no greys. Decide for each element whether it is ink or paper, then make it so. A two colour logo usually becomes the darker shape alone; a logo with a gradient becomes the flat silhouette.
Step 3: thicken the thin parts
Anything under about 0.4mm at the size the stamp will actually be used will break up or vanish. Hairline rules, thin serifs and the gaps inside small letters are the first casualties.
Where two shapes nearly touch, push them apart until there is visible air, because ink bridges small gaps.
If the logo will not survive this, the honest answer is a stamp carrying the company name in type with a simplified emblem, rather than a faithful reproduction nobody can read.
Step 4: build the logo stamp
- Open the stamp maker and pick a shape. A circle with the logo in the centre and the name in the ring is the layout that survives reduction best, because the emblem gets the middle where there is room.
- Upload the logo. The white background is taken out automatically so the mark prints as ink rather than as a white card on the page.
- Set the ring text: the registered name, and the registration number if the mark goes on anything commercial. The curved text refits itself when the name changes length.
- Size the logo against the ring. A logo that fills the centre crowds the text; one that floats in the middle looks unfinished. Leave a clear band between them.
- Pick the ink colour. One colour, and dark enough to read on the paper it will actually meet.
Step 5: download the right format
- Transparent PNG for documents, invoices and email. See transparent stamp PNG.
- SVG or print-ready PDF if a stamp maker is cutting a physical die from it.
- Word if the mark goes into Word templates and the date has to stay editable.
Which does what is set out in stamp file formats.
Stamp logo, seal logo or chop logo
Three phrasings for the same job, and the difference is the shape and the market rather than the method.
A stamp logo is usually a rectangle or a round mark used day to day: the logo beside or above the company name, on invoices, letters and packaging.
A seal logo is round, with the logo in the centre and the name curved around it. It reads as identity rather than as branding, which is why company seals, certificates and awards use it. See round stamps and circular seals.
A chop logo is the same round mark in the markets that call it a chop, which is China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and much of South East Asia. Conventionally red, and often carrying the registered name in full because that is what the chop is for. See the company chop guide.
The build is identical in all three. What changes is the shape you start from, the ink colour, and whether the name goes in a ring or on a line.
Read more: If the logo only exists on a stamp you already own
Check the logo stamp at real size before you commit
The single most useful check, and the one people skip. View it at the size it will actually be used, around 38 to 56mm, on a screen at arm's length. Not zoomed in.
If you can read the registration number at that size, the stamp works. If you cannot, thicken and simplify until you can.
The honest limits
Estamplab is a design tool. This page describes common commercial practice rather than giving legal advice, and what a mark must carry for a particular document is set by the authority receiving it, so check the requirement with them.
Only upload a logo you own or are licensed to use, and only produce a mark your own organisation is entitled to use.
The rest of the range is on the stamp and seal directory.
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