Current Version: 4.2.1

Version History

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Version 4.2.1
Logoist 4 is exclusively available on the Mac App Store.

macOS 10.14 Mojave, macOS 10.15 Catalina, macOS 11 Big Sur, macOS 12 Monterey or macOS 13 Ventura is required to use Logoist 4. Fully optimized for M1-based Macs.
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Logoist 4 Version History

25 Aug 2021
4.2.1
  • Issue fixed when vectorizing images
23 Aug 2021
4.2
  • Blend Modes
  • Specify different blend modes for each object or group – Screen, Add, Multiply, Overlay, Hard Light, Soft Light and Color are supported
  • Order-correct blending for overlapping objects in groups
  • Exportable in all file formats (PDF, SVG, PNG and more)
  • All glow effects may be used with additive blending now
  • Shadow effects can be used with multiply blending
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  • Lens Flares
  • Completely configurable with many options
  • Multiple streak/glow layers per Lens Flare layer
  • Many included lens flare presets
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  • Quick Color Adjustments
  • Simply select objects on the canvas and adjust hue, brightness and contrast using the Color Adjust feature from the toolbar
  • Very handy when adjusting the colors of complex objects with many effects When adjusting colors, single colors from the selected objects may be adjusted directly on the color wheel
  • Also, selecting and adjusting multiple colors on the color wheel simultaneously is possible
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  • Performance
  • Significant performance enhancements and reduced memory usage on M1-based Macs through several Metal optimizations
  • Further optimizations for Macs with Intel- and M1-based Macs
  • Further user interface optimizations for macOS Big Sur
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  • Enhanced X-Ray Mode
  • The fill coloring of objects is now shown as light pastel colours when using X-Ray mode
  • Greatly enhanced performance when using X-Ray mode
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  • Improved display and handling of imported bitmap images
  • Significantly higher performance when editing bitmap images on the canvas – especially for larger images
  • Enhanced quality when exporting artwork with imported bitmap images
  • Border modes (like round corners for example) are now exported using clip paths in PDFs
  • Images may be scaled to their exact pixel size using an option in the inspector
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  • Greatly enhanced Quick Look integration
  • Quick Look previews are now completely vector-based
  • File icons in the Finder of Logoist documents are now rendered much more efficiently
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  • Further Enhancements
  • More document size suggestions, which are now also available in the startup window
  • Improved snapping guides that are using the specified measurement units from the canvas now
  • Option added to hide the selection highlighting when the mouse cursor is not on the canvas
  • Improved gradient shadow filters – better export quality and faster on-screen display
  • The source file of imported images and PDFs may now be exported again
  • Improved snapping when aligning layers and drawing paths
  • Improved main menu structure
12 Nov 2020
4.1
  • Native version for Apple Silicon on Mac
  • Major user interface update for macOS Big Sur
  • Chinese localization added
30 Apr 2020
4.0.2
  • Rendering quality on Macs with Radeon Pro Graphic Processors improved
29 Apr 2020
4.0.1
  • Issue opening image files from the startup window fixed
  • Localization improvements
27 Apr 2020
4.0
  • Complete new rendering pipeline based on Apple Metal
  • Smooth realtime zoom up to 1000%
  • Scroll, zoom and edit with 60 frames per second
  • Dramatically reduced memory footprint
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  • Performance
  • Create designs with thousands of objects or paths without slowdowns
  • Much faster previews in the objects list
  • Performance of the object list drastically improved, even with thousands of objects
  • Improved performance duplicating, grouping or ungrouping objects
  • Much improved speed switching between full drawing mode, x-ray mode and pixel mode
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  • Focus Mode
  • Focus on a specific set of objects while editing elaborate designs
  • Automatically hides all other objects
  • Add and reorder objects in Focus Mode – Logoist 4 makes sure they will be inserted in the correct place in the final design
  • Only displays the colors in the inspector that are relevant for the current objects used in focus mode
  • Restores zoom and scroll position when exiting focus mode
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  • Artboards
  • Multiple drafts or final designs in the same document
  • Artboards can be locked or duplicated
  • Multiple Artboards can be saved as a single PDF
  • Artboards in a document can be configured individually: Specify different sizes, grids or labels for each Artboard
  • Drag & Drop objects between Artboards
  • Perfect integration with Color Suggestions: New Color Suggestions can be either applied to the current Artboard or added as a new Artboard
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  • Vectorizer
  • Creates vector/path-based graphics from bitmap images
  • Can be used with clipart bitmap images, complex vector images or (suitable) fotos
  • Leverages CoreML/Machine Learning to enhance the source imagery
  • Even recognizes gradients in source imagery
  • Optionally analyzes and recreates the hierarchy of objects from the source image
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  • Enhance Images
  • Scales source images by a factor of 2 using CoreML/Machine Learning
  • Removes noise and compression artifacts
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  • Multipoint Gradients
  • Use innovative new gradients by specifying color points, lines and Bézier curves
  • May be used with all objects and paths
  • Ideal for deep and realistic gradients
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  • User Interface
  • Greatly improved Layout
  • Automatically adjusts to the specified system accent color
  • Improved Dark Mode
  • More shortcuts added for commonly used functions
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  • Printing
  • Multiple Artboards can be printed at the same time – even multiple Artboards on one page
  • Easily specify what Artboards should be printed
  • More page layout configuration options added
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  • Align Text on Path
  • Configurable distance between letters and the spacing between letters and the path
  • Align text on any path or group of paths – even very complex paths can be used for alignment
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  • Improved X-Ray
  • Better visualization of the object hierarchy
  • Greatly improved performance
  • Improved visualization of hidden or removed path geometry
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  • Filters
  • New Color Mesh Filter
  • New Edge Dots/Rects Filter
  • New Edge Smear Filter
  • New Border Dots Filter
  • New See-Through Shadow Filter
  • New Inner Dots Filter
  • Greatly improved HDR Filter
  • Improved Bottom Shadow Filter – better quality and more settings added
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  • Crop/Mask Images
  • Greatly improved precision
  • Assisted by CoreML/Machine Learning
  • Vastly better performance thanks to Metal
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  • Improved Rulers & Snapping
  • Improved visualization of object positions on the rulers
  • Object markers are now displayed in the label color
  • Better visualization of snapped objects while editing
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  • Paths
  • New feature: Mirror & merge paths
  • Improved simplify function
  • Greatly improved performance editing paths – even complex paths can be edited with full speed
  • Improved path edit user interface
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  • Specify dark or light mode independent of the corresponding macOS setting
  • Keyboard shortcuts for reordering objects
  • Improved font rendering for complex fonts
  • New user manual system featuring search and a table of contents
  • Imported images can be exported unaltered
  • New canvas zoom slider
  • New anti aliasing groups to improve export quality
  • Improved selection behavior when deleting objects
  • Anti aliasing can be optionally deactivated when exporting images as PNG, JPEG or HEIF

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