The grid follows
your mark.
Select the logo, click Generate. Anchr Grid draws the construction grid, the alignment overlays and the clear space zone as Illustrator layers, and turns them into native guides when you want them.
Three grid tools in one tab.
A base grid to build on, a logo grid to reveal how the mark is built, and a clear space guide to tell the client where it can breathe.
Base grids
Square, isometric, hexagonal or golden ratio. Set the scale, and for the golden ratio the margin, and the grid lands on its own layer, colour coded, above your artwork. Isometric is drawn at 30 degrees each way with the verticals at the height of an equilateral triangle.
Logo grid
Anchors, handles, outlines and gridlines, generated from the paths of the selected mark, each on its own layer with its own colour, stroke and size. Turn on circular trajectories and Anchr fits circles to your curves, all of them or only the largest, with a sensitivity you choose.
Clear space guide
Select the logomark, or the mark and the logotype together. Anchr takes X from the larger dimension of the reference, or from the value you type in pixels, centimetres or inches, then draws the exclusion zone, the optimum clear space at X/2 and the minimum at X/4 as dashed zones.
How it works.
Select the mark
One group for a grid, one or two groups for the clear space guide. Anchr Grid never edits the selection; it reads it.
Choose what to draw
A base grid type, or any mix of anchors, handles, outlines, gridlines and circular trajectories. Colours, stroke widths and sizes are under Customize.
Generate
Everything lands on named layers at the top of the stack: Square Grid, Anchors, Handles, Outlines, Gridlines, Circular Trajectories, Exclusion Zone (X), Optimum Clearspace (X/2), Minimum Clearspace (X/4).
Make Guides
One click converts the grid layers into native Illustrator guides, so they snap, lock and stay out of your exports.
No Illustrator at hand? Try the free logo grid generator in your browser.
What ends up in your file.
- Layers
- One per element, named, colour coded, at the top of the layer stack.
- Your artwork
- Untouched. Delete the layers and the document is exactly as it was.
- Styling
- Fill, stroke colour, stroke width and size per element, plus a gridlines sensitivity level.
- Clear space units
- Logomark (the larger dimension of the reference group), pixels, centimetres or inches.
- Two groups
- Invert Components picks which of the two selected groups is the reference for X.
- Guides
- Native Illustrator guides, one click, from any of the four base grid layers.
- Clear space rule
- The measurement is recorded in the document. Anchr Guide states the rule from it, such as X is the width of the logomark. Guide's Folio template writes it on its Clear space page, and the brand portal publishes it in its Usage section.
- Requires
- Adobe Illustrator 2023 or newer, macOS 12 or Windows 10 and later.
Questions designers ask.
A drawing of the geometry behind a logo: the base grid it sits on, the anchors and handles of its curves, the circles its arcs follow, the lines its edges align to. Designers use it to check consistency while refining a mark, and to show the client that the logo was built rather than drawn.
No. It reads the selected paths and draws on new layers. Nothing in the selection is moved, recoloured or converted.
There is no universal number. The convention that survives scaling is a zone measured from a part of the mark itself, such as the height of the logomark or of a capital letter. Anchr Grid uses the larger dimension of the reference group as X, then draws the optimum zone at X/2 and the minimum at X/4, so the rule is documented as a proportion, not as a number of pixels.
Yes. The layers are ordinary vector artwork: keep them in the file, export the artboard, or place it in the document Anchr Guide generates. Guide also reads the clear space measurement Grid records in the document; the rule it states goes on the Clear space page of its Folio template and in the Usage section of the brand portal.
Yes. Select the logotype group. Anchors, handles and outlines follow every path, letters included, and the clear space guide can take the mark and the wordmark together.
How to build the grids, in detail.
- Golden ratio logo grid: how to build one in Illustrator
How to build a golden ratio grid in Illustrator, what it can and cannot tell you about a logo, and how to present it honestly. · 9 min
- Logo clear space in Illustrator: draw it by hand or generate it
Measure, draw and document logo clear space in Illustrator, with the conventions guidelines use and the mistakes to avoid. · 10 min
- Logo construction grid vs base grid vs clear space grid
The three logo grid systems explained: what each one is for, how to draw it in Illustrator, and which one belongs in the guidelines. · 9 min
- Minimum logo size: test it in Illustrator, then document it
Why every logo needs a minimum size, how to find it with real tests instead of a guess, and how to document it so people respect it. · 9 min
- Best Illustrator plugins for logo designers: an honest 2026 list
Astute Graphics, Logo Package Express, Akrivi, GuideGuide, Fontself and more, compared by what they do and what they cost. · 9 min
Everything you make here goes on the brand portal your client actually opens.
Colours, type, logo files and usage rules, published from Illustrator to one hosted page. No PDF, no attachment, always the current version.
Build the grid, then ship the brand.
Draw the construction grid in seconds, then deliver the whole identity as one link.
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