Platform Clear Logos
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v2 Platform Logos Professionally Redrawn + Official Versions, New BigBox Defaults
By Dan Patrick
This is a giant collection of platform logos drawn digitally by hand. This took well over 500 hours of work over 15 months. While console logos exist all over the internet, this collection aims to bring them to a higher level of polish and accuracy. The default logos in BigBox will now come from this set. It was extremely tedious to ensure a very high level of accuracy across thousands of files.
So Many Versions!
Each included platform has multiple logo variants. Basically, many consoles had different logos for different regions and time periods. There are also smaller variations such as with or without a trademark (tm). There are black and white versions for each of these. With all of these it can add up to over 50 small variations for one platform! This would be impossible to navigate so I’ve split them up into smaller categories. For each format (Normal, Large and SVG) there are Light and Dark folders. For either of those there are: “Color”, “Black & White” and “Just White” (or Just Black respectively). If you wanted to use a minimalistic dark theme, you could use the “Just White” versions for a contemporary look. If you wanted logos for a standard dark theme then you could use “Light - Color”.
Official Versions Included
Besides the many hand drawn logos, I’ve also curated multiple logos that are the OFFICIAL renderings. Meaning, vector art ripped from official sources such as websites and pdf manuals. Finding official source art in the wild is pretty uncommon and required many hours of digging. Most of the source art was not in color so most of these colors are still generated by me. Some of the platforms with official logos include:
Sadly, some of these wasted a lot of my time because I drew them and later found the official versions.
The Drawing Process:
My process for drawing a logo required many steps. I first did research on each logo. Then I would dig deep for the best references I could find. One rule I had was to never trust any image. I would compare multiple sources and make sure the source I chose was not fan made or some modern re-release that changed the logo. If a better source was found that showed differences from what I drew I would redraw it again (it sucked). I redrew the NEO GEO logo about 5 times before I was finally happy with it. Generally, source art would include box art images, adverts, brochures, and manual scans. Archive.org and Manualslib.com were a huge help for a lot of these scans. I would then use the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator and go to town! Sometimes if my source was really amazing, I could finish the whole logo in an hour and a half or so. Other times it would take much, much longer.
Getting the correct color was always challenging and required intelligent guesswork. For example, with the classic Konami logo, I brought in 20 images. Gathered the color from all of those and found the average color for the red and orange. Then I’d tweak it slightly more, usually to improve saturation.
When it came to fonts, I would always search for it but rarely found exact matches. If the font was found I’d obviously use it, but If not I’d have to hand draw it. However, a couple of the smaller taglines/subtitles do use a very close match. Hand drawing those fonts would do more harm than good. While drawing a logo I took great care to make things as visually pleasing as possible. Every little section of each letter of each logo was considered. Curves were carefully made to be smooth with as few anchor points as possible. Letters align with each other and angled letters all share the same angle. Hand drawing fonts is very tricky.
Many logos were substantially harder than I’d anticipated. The Sega Saturn US logo for instance, drove me insane. It took over 40 hours to draw (not to mention wasted time from failed attempts months earlier). I used Adobe Illustrator to mimic every highlight, tiny color shift, shading and glow. When I was working on this logo, I’d come home from my graphic design day job and then spend 4 hours on it, which would only finish part of one letter. As I worked, I’d have a couple copies of the logo in the same file and a couple times it bottomed out 32GB of ram!
Unique Versions
This collection brings a few unique logos to the table. I’m just going to list a few. I created multiple new arcade and pinball logos, although previous arcade logos are here too. I highly polished the Daphne logo as it needed some love. I drew a detailed version of the TeknoParrot logo which seems to be uncommon in high resolution. I also created Sega system 16 and 32 arcade logos based on the exact font used in the Sega 32X and Sega CD (Copperplate Gothic Std 31AB stretched horizontally to 130%). The Capcom logos have stylized alternate versions based on a gradated version Capcom rarely uses. There are several other unique logos I could list here.
White Outline - Default Versions
Since these logos are replacing the default logos in BigBox, Faeran smartly requested that I create versions with white outlines around the outside. That way logos could be seen against any background color. I only made the outline versions for the options I gave to Faeran. I don’t plan on making outline versions for the rest of the variations. That said, the versions I did make are included here. The outline versions don’t look quite as nice in my opinion but they serve a very functional and important purpose. Solid black logos for some systems, like the PSP, would not be visible in certain themes without a white outline. However, theme creators or those wanting to add logos to a single theme, I would still recommend the non-outline versions for the cleanest look.
Conclusion
I included every platform and version that I wanted to. There are some more obscure ones I could draw but I didn’t see the need to seeing as how I've created 22,000 files as is. If I knew how much work this was going to take I would've never gotten myself into this (lol). I hope that you guys get a lot of enjoyment out of these. I’m glad I made them and it feels really good to finally be able to upload them. I made these originally for LaunchBox but they can be used elsewhere. I will always appreciate credit if you use them. Needless to say, I don’t own the rights to the logos and these are NEVER to be sold in any way.
Thanks
Special thanks to Juketstu and Faeran for their valuable feedback.
Also, huge thanks again to Faeran and the LaunchBox team for using these as the new defaults for BigBox!
If you like what you see here, please also check out my LaunchBox / BigBox logo collection & Pineapple Graphics' Photoreal Controller Vectors:
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retroroots RetroRoots - Clearlogos - Platforms - Sourcefile
By HannesRoets
These are the platform clearlogos made for the use with RetroRoots, a modern BigBox Theme for 16x9 monitors.
Feel free to use them. When used in your own theme, some credit would be highly appreciated
I hope you like and enjoy these logos.
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Features:
Full vector smart objects Most are redrawn by myself Many alternate logos to match your liking Neatly layered & alphabetically grouped Text only template included Text & icon template included Usage:
Export to use in launchbox:
Open the psd file with photoshop, use CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + S to export.
Choose PNG and make sure it's transparent. Name to match your platform in your LB collection.
There are 2 options as to where you can save them to:
As default for all themes (not reccomended): \LaunchBox\Images\Platforms As a set to overwrite the default logo's with the use of a specific theme: \LaunchBox\Themes\RetroRoots\Images\Platforms\Clear Logo
where "RetroRoots" would be the theme of your choosing Edit the vector:
Open the layers panel in photoshop, press F7. Doubleclick the layer icon to open the smart layer in illustrator. Feel free to adjust to your liking.
Requests:
Missing logo? No problem, feel free to contact me I'll do my best to include it in the next update.
Ask for the logo in my forum topic or contact me on discord ( HannesRoets#0770 ).
Included in this version:
Atari Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800 Atari Jaguar Atari ST Atari Lynx Amstrad Amstrad CPC Amstrad GX4000 Atomiswave Sammy Capcom Capcom ps1 Capcom ps2 Capcom ps3 Cave Coleco Coleco vision Commodore Commodore 64 Commodore amiga Data East Dice Fujitsu fm towns Future pinball GCE Vectrex Irem Konami Lucasarts Mattel intellivision Midway Microsoft MS dos MS msx MS windows 10 MS windows 3.11 MS windows 95 MS windows 98 MS windows vista MS windows xp Namco Nec Nec pc engine Nec pc engine cd Nec turbo graphicx 16 Nec turbo graphicx cd Nec supergrafx Neo geo pocket Neo geo system Nintendo Nintendo 64 Nintendo DS Nintendo entertainment system (nes) Nintendo game & watch Nintendo gameboy Nintendo gameboy advance Nintendo gameboy color Nintendo gamecube Nintendo super nintendo entertainment system (snes) Nintendo switch Nintendo wii Nintendo wii u Openbor Panasonic 3DO Pinball fx3 Pinball fx2 Popcap Samsung gam*boy Sinclair zx spectrum Sharp X68000 Sega Sega cd Sega dreamcast Sega gamegear Sega genesis Sega mastersystem Sega mega drive Sega mega drive 32x Sega naomi Sega nomad Sega ringedge Sega saturn Sega sg 1000 Snk Sony Sony playstation 2 Sony playstation 3 Sony playstation one Sony psp Sony psp minis Touhou project Triforce (namco, sega & nintendo) Williams21 downloads
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Logo 3D
By skyfighter
I made a few animated logo, Switch, Snes, Nes, Xbox 360, 3DS and 3DO. If I make more I'll keep you posted.
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Neon Looking Platform Clear Logos for LB & BB
By The Papaw
I made these for one of my themes and thought I would share them with the community. They look decent in most Launchbox & Bigbox themes if you like the neon look.
2.0.0 includes around 250 clear logos (Platforms, Platform Categories, a few Playlists as well as some extras like TV Shows, Movies, Comics, etc.).
Enjoy!
-The Papaw
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- platform
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Mobile Platform Clear Logo
By biosonic417
A platform category logo made from a stock image that I found. Font used: Budokan Rounded
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- clear logo
- platform category
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Sonic Big Box Collection - Platform Categories
By biosonic417
A clear logo pack, inspired by Sonic Mega/Gems Collection, to go with this startup video:
Available for the following platform categories:
Arcade
Computers
Consoles
Handhelds
Media (an experimental category for Comics and Movies)
Mobile
Pinball
Font used: FOT-NewRodin Pro B
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- clear logo
- clear logos
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Steam Deck - Misc Clear Logos, Icons
By machjas
I created a few clear logos featuring the Steam Deck!
Clear Logos
The intention is to use these for playlists or platforms, like "Steam Deck Verified" as an example. There are black and white variants for use with light or dark themes.
Icon Files
I also included two .ICO files to use in Windows, the reason being that I now have a scaled down LB/BB build that lives on my Steam Deck, and my primary portable build that's much larger on an external drive that's accessible when the Deck is docked. I wanted to create icons to further differentiate them on my start screen.
Credit
Thanks again to @Dan Patrick - I used his recreations of the LaunchBox and BigBox cube logos, and sourced the Steam Deck outline image online and modified it to add more contrast between the outline and base colors.
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OpenBOR Clear Logo
By Ninjaman
This is a Clear Logo for the OpenBOR system i hope you like it
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Machtendo - Platform Categories
By machjas
I created some Platform Category Clear Logos!
I had been using a set created by @knewlife which I really liked (found here). I just ran into a problem with the images scaling quite like I'd like to see. I decided to go ahead and recreate a couple of my favorites from scratch for a refresh, and riffed on his original idea with the others. These all started as 4K images @ 600 ppi and trimmed down from there.
Arcade = Capcom Logo (recreation)
Computers = IBM Logo (recreation)
Consoles = PlayStation Logo
Handhelds = Gameboy Logo
Pinball = Williams Logo
I made sure to use colors pulled from what I consider the definitive collection of logos created by @Dan Patrick where I could.
I also made variations with white and black outlines with a couple of different line weights to accommodate light or dark themes.
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- platform categories
- clear logo
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Soqueroeu's Colorful Clear Logos Category
By soqueroeu
My Colorful Clear Logos Category
Hello everybody!
I would like to share my category logos with you. I made them to use with the Colorful bigbox theme. Of course, you can use them in other themes. They were made inspired by the Colorfull Big Box colors and contain 8 variants:
simple gray Simple gray (caps text) simple dark Simple dark (caps text) 2.5D gray 2.5D gray (caps text) 2.5D dark 2.5D dark (caps text)
All logos are 1920p wide, to maximize quality on high resolution displays. You may want to reduce the size using some image software. Feel free to do so.
Please note, I only created logos for the main categories. But you can create your own, because include the source .psd file 😄
Any feedback is welcome.
Enjoy!
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- clear logo
- logos
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3D Rotating Platform Logos
I know I'm a dumbass for deleting my previous demo, Shame on me right? Sorry I've been out of launchbox for a very long ass time.
Full Version of 3D Rotating Platform Logos, I got bored of silver ring logos & I want to try something different.
180 and 360 spins are available, I know there's some logos missing but that's where you come in and request me to do some!
I'll start a topic for requests someday but my fucking wrist hurts...…..
I need go finish deathloop.....
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Cartoonish Platform Logo Set
By tatz
Just messing around with some logos. This is my first share, just wanted to give back to the community a little.
Im definetly not a PRO by any means! Some may like and some may not and thats ok. Thanks to the real professionals that make this community GREAT!
Anyway just a small set of Logos i made a little Cartoonish but look really nice with a scroll wheel. If enough people like it i have no problem updating.
LogosV2.zip
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Platform Category - Chrome Pack
By Rlad
6 Platform Category and 2 Playlist clear logos
116 downloads
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Acrylic Logo Maker
By harryoke
Been away for quite a while , just popped in to share this with you , sorry no more startup videos for a while as my main pc i used for rendering has went to the great big silicone graveyard.
Easy to use PSD is included with some samples of what can be achieved.
Hope you create some wonderful stuff guys n gals.
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Datach - Clear Logo
By ci2own
Datach - Clear Logo vectorized by me. I used this image as template:
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STEAM CLEAR LOGO
I couldn't find a Steam clear logo I like so I made one! I hope others enjoy it.
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Silver Ring Clear Logos - Rare Systems
By Retro_Rage
For my setup I have been using the silver ring clear logo set that was created by @viking, Probably the best logo pack there is. As detailed at as the pack is, I have a few custom and very rare systems that didn't have logos. So I made them. The full credit for the logos and the template are @viking and I hope it is ok to use them. You can see all the systems that are included in the screenshots. Once again, none of these are included in his pack and have not found any of these systems with logos already made.
Custom Systems - All the rare systems that I have included
And a few goodies...
Arcade logos - These are a mainly arcade boards for those who perhaps like to split some systems off from MAME or who download arcade packs individually.
Magazine Logos - I have these full catalogue of magazines in my collections. The magazines are in CBZ and I use Cdisplay through rocketlauncher to launch them beautifully. They are freely and legally distributed at places on the web, Google is your friend.
Hacks Logos - These are the exact logos that @viking made but I added a hacks logo on them for those who like to have a seperate category for hacked games. If there are any issues posting these I will gladly remove them.
The original PSD that these are based on can be downloaded from the original thread here but I have included my slightly modified PSD in certain packs that are changed. For example the hacks pack so that you can make any logo a "hacks" logo and the magazines pack has a custom background.
As I add more systems to my collection, I will update this pack accordingly. Of course nothing will be duplicated if it was already created elsewhere or in the original pack. Hope someone can use them!
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bigbox Clear Logos for SNK Neo Geo & NEC TurboGrafx-CD
By DeusX81
Hello everyone,
I just made two clear logos for platforms which doesn't have one in the default BigBox themes (at least not in my version of BigBox).
Feel free to use them as you like.
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- clearlogo
- clear logo
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TeknoParrot Clear Logo
By Pit Art's
i could't find Logo for TeknoParrot that work with Basic - Platform Clear Logo Set so I made one.
This is my first Upload. I hope you like it
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Neon Clear Logos
By narnz
I customised a small amount of @ea4492 Platform clear Logos for my BigBox to give it a different look.
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- neon
- platform clear logos
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Platform Category - Pixel Clear Logos
By DarkanParx
Hi,
I made these Platform Category clear logos to use with Unified Refried theme. Could work well on similar dark/grey/blue backgrounds.
Logos included:
Arcade Computers Consoles Handhelds Pinball Favorites Playlists To install, simply unzip and copy into Launchbox/Image/Platform Category folder (or corresponding theme folder). Make sure the name matches your platform.
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