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Make your logo brighter than white

Upload your logo and get an HDR JPEG back: on HDR screens the colors you pick glow up to 7.5x brighter than #FFFFFF, and on every other screen it's a perfectly normal image. Works on LinkedIn, Instagram and the web. Free, no signup, and the file never leaves your browser.

Drop your logo here, or click to choose a file
PNG, JPEG or WebP. Light logos on dark backgrounds glow best. Nothing leaves your browser.

How it works

HDR displays hold most of their brightness in reserve. Standard white, the #FFFFFF your logo normally maxes out at, renders around 200 nits, while the same panel can reach 1,000 nits or more for HDR content. The difference is called headroom, and photos from any recent iPhone or Android flagship already use it: that's why camera-roll photos sometimes look more vivid than everything around them.

This tool gives your logo access to the same headroom. It embeds a gain map, a second grayscale image inside the JPEG that marks which pixels get boosted and by how much, with metadata in both the ISO 21496-1 standard format and the older Adobe format for maximum compatibility. Software that understands gain maps (Chrome, Safari 26, Apple Photos, LinkedIn, Instagram) pushes the marked pixels into the headroom. Software that doesn't simply shows the untouched base image. The default boost of +2.9 stops lands around 1,500 nits, roughly the ceiling of what current screens actually display.

Everything happens in your browser: the clustering that finds your logo's colors, the mask, the JPEG encoding and the container assembly. Your file is never uploaded, stored or seen by us. If you're building ad creative rather than a profile picture, Adside's brand kits keep your real colors, fonts and logos consistent across every ad, and the rest of the free tools cover hooks, budgets and benchmarks.

Make text glow with CSS

The same trick works for live text on a website. Browsers don't support HDR colors in CSS yet, but they do render HDR images, so you can paint a headline with your generated file using background-clip. Wrap it in a dynamic-range media query so SDR visitors keep a normal color:

/* Paint text with an HDR gain-map image. SDR visitors get the fallback color. */
h1.glow { color: #fff; }
@media (dynamic-range: high) {
  h1.glow {
    background: url('/your-logo-hdr.jpg') 50% 50% / cover;
    -webkit-background-clip: text;
    background-clip: text;
    color: transparent;
  }
}

Generate a solid-white image with this tool (the sample wordmark works) and reference it as the background. Use it on a headline or an accent, not body text: the point of a glow is that one thing has it.

HDR logo questions, answered

Your screen's white (#FFFFFF) is not its maximum brightness. On an HDR display, standard white sits around 200 nits while the panel can reach 1,000 to 1,600 nits, and that extra range, called headroom, is normally reserved for HDR photos and video. This tool embeds a gain map in your JPEG that tells HDR-aware software to push the colors you picked into that headroom, up to about 7.5x the brightness of regular white at the maximum setting.

A gain map is a second, small grayscale image stored inside the JPEG alongside the normal one. White areas of the gain map mean "boost this pixel", black means "leave it alone". Software that understands the format (standardized as ISO 21496-1, also called Ultra HDR) applies the boost on HDR screens; everything else just shows the normal base image. This tool writes both the ISO 21496-1 metadata and the older Adobe gain map metadata, so it works in more decoders than files that carry only one.

On an HDR display, in software that reads gain maps: Chrome and Edge, Safari 26 and iOS 26, Apple Photos, Android 14+ photo viewers, LinkedIn, and Instagram (which has accepted Ultra HDR photos since 2024). Recent iPhones (11 and later), MacBook Pros with XDR displays, and most flagship Android phones have the headroom to show it. On SDR screens, or in software that ignores gain maps, the image looks like a completely normal JPEG.

No. The base image in the file is your logo exactly as you uploaded it, untouched. The glow only exists as metadata plus a second tiny image inside the JPEG, and software that doesn't understand it ignores it entirely. That's the appeal of the format: there is no downside on screens that can't show it.

Use the LinkedIn (PQ) version for LinkedIn. LinkedIn re-encodes every upload, which strips the gain map from the standard file, but it preserves ICC color profiles, so the PQ version encodes the glow directly into the pixels with a BT.2100 PQ profile that survives the re-encode (as of early 2026). For everywhere else, including Instagram and your own website, use the standard HDR JPEG: it degrades more gracefully and keeps your exact original colors on SDR screens.

Brightness boosting multiplies the light a pixel emits, so a white or light-colored element becomes brilliant while staying recognizably itself. Boost a dark color and it stops being dark, which reads as a washed-out neon version of your brand color rather than a glow. That's why the tool auto-selects light elements and leaves dark backgrounds alone. White or light logos on dark backgrounds get the most dramatic effect.

HDR images are a standard platform feature, not an exploit: phones have been uploading them automatically for two years. Whether you should is a taste question. A glowing profile picture or ad creative genuinely stands out in a feed today because almost nobody does it, and the effect fades as more people do. Platforms may also add brightness limits the way some now tone down HDR video. Our take: use it while it's rare, and keep the glow on your mark, not on the whole image.

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