Understanding BIMI Certificate Types

When implementing Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI), verifying your logo with a BIMI Certificate brings additional benefits for recipients at mailbox providers globally. There are three types of assertion for logos: Self-assertion, Common Mark...

Announcing Common Mark Certificates

The AuthIndicators Working Group (BIMI Group) has introduced a new capability to enhance Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI), which Google is now officially supporting in Gmail. This update extends beyond Verified Mark Certificate (VMC), which requires...

Solving SVG Issues

There are many reasons why your SVG might fail one of the online BIMI validators, and many of these issues stem from the requirement that all SVG images conform to the Tiny Portable Secure (Tiny-PS) standard. What is SVG Tiny-PS? SVG Tiny PS (Portable/Secure) is a...

SVG Conversion Tools Released

The logo referenced by a Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) record must be in a specific format. It’s based on the Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) Tiny 1.2 format specified by the W3C, with fewer allowed elements. The version supported by BIMI has...

Using the RNC Schema to Validate BIMI SVG Images

WARNING: If you’re not comfortable with technical details, downloading Python scripts, and playing with XML source files, this won’t be the blog post for you.  But if you’re keen to lift the hood and fiddle under the covers of SVG files, read on! The Brand...