Kwaku Amprako is a brand identity designer and founder of Akrivi — pioneering BIDA (Brand Identity Design Automation) to empower designers to create with more speed, precision, and less stress.
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9 Adobe Illustrator Scripts and Extensions To Save You Time (Free and Paid)
Free & Paid Illustrator Scripts and Extensions for Logo & Brand Identity Designers
As a brand identity designer, your most valuable asset is your creative time. Yet, how much of it is lost to tedious, manual work? Aligning objects, creating color legends, organizing artboards, it all adds up.
That constant frustration with inefficient workflows is the very reason I started building the automation tools at Akrivi.
Before you invest in a full suite of plugins, you can reclaim hours of your day with a few powerful, free scripts.
I’ve put together this curated list of 10 free Adobe Illustrator scripts that are genuinely useful for logo and brand identity designers.
They handle the boring stuff, so you can focus on what you do best.
Free Adobe Illustrator Scripts
1. Swatch Legend
Manually listing out color codes for a brand guideline is slow and prone to typos. The Swatch Legend script automates this entirely. It instantly creates a neat legend from your document’s swatches, complete with color names and values, which you can place directly into your guidelines.
2. CMYK to Pantone
Finding the right Pantone (PMS) match for your CMYK brand colors is crucial for print consistency. This script does the hard work for you. Just select an object with your CMYK color, and it will find the closest official Pantone solid color match, saving you from manual color book searching.
3. Half-Line
Creating a vintage, engraved look often requires line-based shading. This script automates that process by converting your artwork into a half-tone pattern made of clean, editable vector lines of varying thickness. It's a fantastic way to add a unique texture to your designs.
4. Triangulator Pro
The low-poly, geometric look is a popular style for abstract logos and brand graphics. Triangulator Pro instantly converts any selected object into a mesh of triangles, giving you a sharp, modern aesthetic without having to draw it manually with the Pen Tool.
5. ScriptLauncher
Finding and running scripts from the File > Scripts menu is a tedious task, especially if you use them often. ScriptLauncher solves this by creating a simple panel where you can quickly launch all your other scripts. It's a must-have for anyone who uses scripts on a daily basis.
Paid Premium Adobe Illustrator Scripts & Extensions
Saving time on manual tasks is a crucial part of working efficiently as a brand designer.
The scripts I've shared are a great, but they are not specific to the main tasks when creating a logo and brand identity design system.
The best tools for brand identity designers using adobe illustrator are not the paid ones, but the premium ones specifically created by us at Akrivi.
Howeevr you can try them for free with our free trial
6. Gridit
Logo perfection isn’t easy. Achieving precise balance, alignment, and proportion takes time and that’s why professional designers rely on logo grids.
But building those grids manually is slow and often complex.
Akrivi Gridit removes that friction allowing you to generate precise logo grid systems instantly, with a single click.
7. Guideit
Creating brand guidelines is where most time is lost in the branding process, and where inconsistencies often happen.
Templates promise speed but still require hours of manual structuring and formatting.
Akrivi Guideit replaces that workflow entirely. With Automated Templates™, you can generate fully structured professional brand guidelines instantly by uploading your assets and clicking generate.
8. Presentit
Presenting logos can be challenging, especially when you are working to tight deadlines.
Bento grids are one of the most effective ways to present a logo and brand identity on a single page, showing cohesion and clarity at a glance.
However, creating these layouts in Adobe Illustrator is often time consuming and difficult to get right.
Akrivi Presentit solves this. Instantly generate high quality bento grid layouts in one click, with endless style variations.
9. Logo Package Express
A lightweight logo file generator designed to speed up how you export logo files for client delivery.
It helps you create a complete logo package with the correct logo sizes, files and formats, while organising everything into a clean structure to reduce repetitive manual work.
