Convert a Logo to Grayscale
Produce the greyscale version of your logo that brand guidelines almost always require, with correct luminance weighting.
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Why brand guidelines ask for a mono logo
Luminance, not an average
Each channel is weighted by how bright the eye reads it — roughly 30 percent red, 59 green, 11 blue. Averaging the channels instead is what turns a vivid brand colour into an indistinct mid-grey and makes two-colour logos merge into one shape.
Nearly every brand book requires one
A mono version exists so the mark survives contexts that cannot carry colour: a fax, a single-ink press run, an engraved plate, a newspaper. If your guidelines specify one and you do not have the file, this produces it from the colour original.
Check that it still reads
Two brand colours with similar brightness — a mid-blue and a mid-green, say — converge on the same grey and the logo loses its internal structure. If that happens, the mark needs a hand-adjusted mono version rather than a straight conversion.
Transparency is untouched
Only colour is removed. A transparent logo keeps its alpha channel and exact silhouette, so it still drops onto any background.
Grayscale is not one colour
Grayscale keeps every shade between black and white. A single-colour version maps the whole mark onto one hue. If your guidelines ask for one ink rather than mono, use the Logo to One Colour tool instead.
How to convert a logo to grayscale
Upload your logo
Drop in the colour version, transparent or on a background.
The result appears immediately
Conversion runs the moment the file loads. There is nothing to configure.
Download
Take a free preview, or download the full-resolution file with one credit.
Where the mono version gets used
Brand guideline assets
Produce the mono variant your brand book specifies.
Print and press
Supply a version that survives single-ink and newsprint reproduction.
Documents and contracts
Use a restrained mark on paperwork where colour would be out of place.
Engraving and embossing
Give the manufacturer a tonal reference with no colour to interpret.
Or just ask
Describe the edit in your own words
Type what you want changed and the assistant does it on the canvas — each step lands as a layer you can reopen, so nothing it does is baked in.
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Make a mono version of your logo
Upload and download the greyscale variant.