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SVG Files on the Canvas

Last updated: August 2026


Drop an .svg onto a board, or pick one from the image gallery, and it stays a real vector. It is crisp at any zoom, it stays vector in a PDF export of the board, and it weighs a few kilobytes where the same logo as a PNG weighs a few hundred.

Nothing is rasterised on upload, so zooming into a logo shows edges rather than pixels.

Where SVG works

  • Boards — drop, paste or pick from the file picker
  • The image gallery — upload once, reuse across boards

Where it does not

  • Profile pictures and project covers take raster images only
  • AI reference images take raster only, because the image models behind them do

If you need a logo in one of those places, export a PNG of it.

Animation

An animated SVG animates on the board, the same as a GIF does. The one exception is an animation whose job is to rewrite a link or source address — that goes with the rest of the active content below.

What we strip, and why

Every upload lands at a permanent public address, and an SVG is a document that can carry scripts. So the file is cleaned when it arrives: scripts, event handlers and references to outside resources are removed, and the stored file is served as a download rather than opening in a browser tab.

Your artwork — shapes, paths, gradients, text, animation — is untouched. In practice the only SVGs that change are ones carrying code you did not want on your board anyway.

Storage

An SVG counts against the same storage allowance as any other image, and there is no separate size cap for it.

Use Cases

  • Put brand logos on a board and keep them sharp at every zoom
  • Export a board to PDF with vector logos rather than fuzzy ones
  • Reuse an icon set across boards from the gallery without bloating storage

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