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How To Get Your Livestock Brand Digitized For Free

The brand on your iron took generations to earn. Getting it into a clean digital file should take about a minute.

By the Ranch Brand team · 4 min read

If you run cattle, you know the work nobody sees. Checking water before sunup. Pulling calves in the snow. Patching fence that was fine yesterday. It's not the kind of thing you explain at a dinner party — but other ranchers get it.

And every one of them knows what their brand means.

Your brand is your family's name

It's on the gate, the barn, and every calf you've raised. It outlasts the truck, the tractor, and most of the fence. When your kids see it, they know where they come from.

But for most ranches, that brand only lives on the iron, a gatepost, or a page in the state brand book. The day you want it on a hat, a mug, a truck door, or a sign, you need a clean digital file — and that's where it gets complicated.

The usual way is a runaround

Ask around and here's what you'll hear:

• Find a print shop in town that will take the job.
• Explain what a livestock brand is — and why the bar can't be crooked.
• Pay someone else to redraw your brand from a phone photo.
• Wait weeks and hope it comes back right.

You've got enough to do. We made it simple.

What "digitizing" your brand means

Digitizing is redrawing your brand as clean lines on a computer. You get a vector file (SVG) that stays sharp at any size, from a sticker to the side of a trailer. Sign shops, embroiderers, and printers all ask for it.

Auto-trace tools give wobbly edges and lose the small parts of a brand. Our artists only draw livestock brands, so they know how they read: bars stay straight, lazy letters stay lazy, and connected brands stay connected.

Who we are

Ranch Brand was started by a 3rd generation rancher. We built Ranch Brand Search, a free way to look up 450,000+ registered brands across the US. Then we started putting those brands on hats, mugs, decals, and stickers — made to order, shipped to your door.

• 2,000+brands digitized
• 1700+orders

How to get your brand digitized for free

1. 1

   Send us a photo of your brand

   A photo of the branding iron, a drawing on paper, a brand book page, or an old certificate. If your brand is old, from another state, or not registered anymore, that is fine.

2. 2

   Add any merch to your order

   A hat, a mug, a decal, or a sticker pack. With any merch in the order, Brand Digitization ($39.99 on its own) is free.

3. 3

   Get your files in 1–2 business days

   Our artists hand-draw your brand. We email you a link to download your files, and your merch is made with the same clean brand.

Any photo works

Example uploads and the clean brands our artists drew from them.

What you get

• Professional design file (SVG) — The vector file to send to sign makers, embroidery, laser engraving and print shops. Sharp at any size.
• PNG with a clear background — 3000 × 3000 px, no background. For documents, websites, and social media.
• JPEG on white — 3000 × 3000 px on white. Easy to text, email, and print.
• Print file: Barbed Wire — Print it at home or at a print shop and frame it (10 × 10 in at 300 dpi).
• Print file: Lariat Rope — Print it at home or at a print shop and frame it (10 × 10 in at 300 dpi).
• Print file: Heart — Print it at home or at a print shop and frame it (10 × 10 in at 300 dpi).
• Your ranch name and year — optional text arced over the brand and a line under it

What ranchers say about their brand drawings

• Verified

  “I sent a sketch in and they made it perfect!”

  College Place, WA

• Verified

  “I was able to send a rough drawing of my family's brand, and they did a perfect job!”

  Murphys, CA

• “Perfect recreation of my grandfathers cattle ranch brand.”

  Ft Collins, CO

• Verified

  “I was able to send a photo of the brand I wanted, shortly after an artist rendering was sent back… absolutely painless.”

  Chino Hills, CA

• Verified

  “It looks exactly like our registered brand.”

  La Honda, CA

• Verified

  “Perfect with our crazy brand!”

  Polk, NE

Get your brand digitized today

Upload a photo of your brand, pick any merch, and your digitized brand files are free. Only want the files? Order Brand Digitization on its own for $39.99.

Questions? Text or call our team at +1 (307) 317-0340.