The logo has been designed with the goal of being easily manufacturable with a traditional PCB silkscreen process. All silkscreen line widths are at least 0.15mm minimum width. Although the logo was designed in Inkscape, the design only uses line primitives so that it can be easily replicated within a PCB layout tool like KiCad if necessary.

The images in this repository are exported as PNG at 1200px width x 1200px height with a DPI of 10160.

The KiCad logo footprint is generated using svg2mod. It expects images saved in the uncompressed Inkscape SVG (i.e., not "plain SVG") format. Layers or items must be named to match the target layer in KiCad (e.g. the Inkscape layer name must be F.SilkS to create top silkscreen drawings in the KiCad footprint).

The F.SilkS layer is manually created from paths in the other layers. If the logo is changed in the future, this layer needs to be recreated and the KiCad footprint needs to be regenerated.

Create a new layer named F.SilkS in Inkscape and copy the paths to this layer:

Select each layer and choose Path → Stroke to Path:

Select all background paths and choose Path → Union:

Move the background paths into the F.SilkS layer:

Delete the empty subpath folder and move the graphics paths to the top:

Select both paths and choose Path → Exclusion:

This will result in a single path that's ready for svg2mod conversion:

Install svg2mod in an isolated python virtual environment using pipx:

pipx install svg2mod

Generate the KiCad logo footprint:

svg2mod --center --precision=0.01 --format=pretty --units=mm --name=REF** --value=LOGO_CGND_3X3MM_SILKSCREEN --input-file=cgnd_logo_3x3mm.svg --output-file=CGND_LOGO.pretty/LOGO_CGND_3X3MM_SILKSCREEN.kicad_mod

Note: the default precision (-p 1) will result in poor output quality:

Specifying a higher precision -p 0.01 gives better results: