Recraft V3

Recraft V3 generates true native SVG vector files, not auto-traced raster images embedded in an SVG wrapper. The output contains real editable paths, anchor points, and separate color fills. Open the file in Adobe Illustrator, Figma, Affinity Designer, or Inkscape and you can select individual paths, adjust stroke weights, change colors, and scale the artwork infinitely with no quality loss. This is the meaningful distinction that makes Recraft V3 useful for production logo design and icon work.

Auto-tracers (Illustrator's Image Trace, Inkscape's vectorizer, dedicated tools) convert raster pixel grids into vector paths by approximating edges. The result is often hundreds of noisy micro-paths, poor color separation, and shapes that require extensive manual cleanup. Recraft V3 generates vector paths as a primary output of the model, not a post-processing step, so paths are cleaner, color regions are better separated, and the resulting SVG requires significantly less manual editing to reach production quality.

Style Lock extracts visual characteristics from a set of reference images (line weight, corner treatment, color application, detail density, rendering approach) and encodes them as persistent parameters applied to all subsequent generations in a session. You can define custom styles from brand imagery and save them. When a style is locked, running 20 icon or illustration prompts produces a visually coherent set rather than 20 individually styled interpretations. This is how design system-level consistency is enforced at generation time.

Brand Kit lets you define your brand's color palette and create a custom generative style derived from reference brand imagery. Once configured, every Recraft V3 generation automatically applies those constraints, so generated assets match the brand palette and visual language without per-prompt specification. The Brand Kit integrates with Recraft's Figma plugin, so brand-consistent generation is available directly in the design tool. Switching between Brand Kits or disabling brand constraints for a specific generation is supported.

Recraft V3 is the strongest AI tool for logo concept generation in native SVG, and with clean prompts many outputs are close to production-ready with minimal editing. For final delivery to a client, the workflow is to use Recraft to rapidly explore logo directions and SVG file structure, then refine the chosen direction in Illustrator or Figma, adjusting anchor points, tightening curves, and ensuring the file is clean for trademark registration. The commercial license on paid plans permits use of refined outputs in client deliverables.

Recraft's commercial license does not restrict your ability to apply for trademark protection for designs that incorporate Recraft-generated elements. You can develop a logo concept in Recraft V3, refine it in a design tool, and include it in a trademark application. The license permits use as part of a larger design work delivered to clients; what it does not permit is redistributing generated assets as standalone stock, like selling an icon pack of unmodified Recraft outputs, for example.

Adobe Illustrator's generative fill features produce raster-based outputs even within a vector environment, and they are constrained to in-product editing tasks. Recraft V3 generates standalone SVG files from text prompts at scale (logo marks, icon sets, illustrations, brand assets), making it useful at the asset-creation stage rather than the editing stage. The two tools serve complementary roles in a design workflow, with Recraft handling AI-native generation and Illustrator handling refinement and production finalization.

The 70+ presets span photorealistic photography, digital illustration styles, and graphic emblem categories. They provide a fast starting point for common design directions without building a custom style. Use presets when you need quick visual exploration across different aesthetics or when a project does not require strict brand alignment. Use a custom Brand Kit when generating assets for a specific client or brand where the visual language is already defined. The Kit encodes your specific constraints rather than selecting from the preset library.

Yes, and this is one of its strongest practical use cases. Lock a style that defines your icon grid parameters (2px stroke weight, rounded caps, 24px grid, monochrome), then prompt for each icon in the set individually or as a batch. Style Lock enforces those parameters across every output, producing a set where stroke weight, corner treatment, and visual density are consistent. This dramatically reduces the time required to produce a production-ready icon set versus generating each icon in a general model and reconciling differences manually.

Recraft V3 outputs SVG for vector work and raster formats (PNG, JPEG) for photorealistic and illustration outputs that are not suited to vector representation. The SVG output is specific to the vector generation mode. When generating photorealistic images or complex illustrative scenes, raster output is more appropriate and SVG is not produced. For design system work requiring vector scalability, use the vector generation mode explicitly.

Recraft V3 applies design-language understanding to compositional prompts (isometric perspective, figure groupings, spatial hierarchy, negative space management) in a way that produces illustrations that integrate into design layouts rather than fighting them. The style lock ensures that a hero illustration, supporting feature illustrations, and icon set all share the same visual language. For SaaS landing page illustration sets, this makes Recraft V3 the most efficient model for producing a coherent visual system rather than a collection of loosely related images.

Recraft V3 is an AI image generation model available inside Masonry, the AI creative agent teams use to produce marketing, product, and brand images.

Open a Masonry canvas, pick Recraft V3 from the model selector, and describe the image you need: a product shot, an ad creative, a social post. Masonry generates it, then you refine, edit, and combine Recraft V3 with other models in one workspace.

Yes, you can start generating images with Recraft V3 on Masonry's free tier, then scale up with higher limits and priority processing as your team grows.

Yes, the prompt gallery on this page shows real images teams have generated with Recraft V3 in Masonry, each paired with the exact prompt you can copy and adapt for your own brand.