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How could I get a LinkedIn logo (like those found in http://press.linkedin.com/Media-Resources?SubjectID=644) in Latex?

I found some tikz code somewhere, but that was not for one in blue, and it didn't look quite the same.

Example:

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  • Why not just include one of those as a graphic?
    – Thruston
    Jul 10, 2014 at 17:13
  • @Thruston I want to use it in a cv, as a logo. I don't know if There would be a handy way to get the image neatly in the header that way. But if there is then that would be nice :)
    – texfan
    Jul 10, 2014 at 17:14
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    Just \usepackage{graphicx} then \includegraphics{logo_file} where you need it.
    – Thruston
    Jul 10, 2014 at 17:16
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    Of course if you posted an example of what you where trying to do, people might be able to suggest improvements.
    – Thruston
    Jul 10, 2014 at 17:16
  • Also see LinkedIn Branding Guidelines...
    – Werner ♦
    Jul 10, 2014 at 17:44

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fontawesome provides a number of "Social icons":

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{document}
\doublespacing% Just for this example
\verb|Facebook|: \faFacebook \quad \faFacebookSquare \par
\verb|Twitter|: \faTwitter \quad \faTwitterSquare \par
\verb|Github|: \faGithub \quad \faGithubSquare \par
\verb|HTML5|: \faHtml5 \par
\verb|LinkedIn|: \faLinkedin \quad \faLinkedinSquare \par
\verb|Pinterest|: \faPinterest \quad \faPinterestSquare \par
\verb|Google+|: \faGooglePlus \quad \faGooglePlusSquare
\end{document}

It requires compilation via XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

Following the discussion on LinkedIn Branding Guidelines, you can also download the EPS versions of the LinkedIn logo and include them using \includegraphics (from graphicx).

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    Very nice. Would there be a way though to get the original, blue linkedin icon?
    – texfan
    Jul 10, 2014 at 17:26
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    @rbm: Add the xcolor package to your preamble (\usepackage{xcolor}) and use \colorLinkedinSign where \newcommand{\colorLinkedinSign}{\textcolor{rgb:red,6;green,108;blue,170}{\faLinkedinSign}}. This is the output.
    – Werner ♦
    Jul 10, 2014 at 17:39
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    Whops!! academicons for ResearchGate, Google Scholar, pubMed, OrcID, Zotero, etc. jpswalsh.github.io/academicons
    – Andrestand
    Jun 16, 2016 at 14:35
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Also trusting various websites and having Adobe Myriad Pro Bold on your system,

\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec,tikz}
\setmainfont{Myriad Pro Bold}

\begin{document}
Linked\tikz[baseline=(i.text)]\node[fill=blue,rounded corners=0.25ex,text=white,inner sep=0.3ex](i) {in};

\end{document}

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I didn't try to match the roundedness, kern or any other detail but if you wish you can do some precision surgery on it.

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  • Oops, I forgot again that this needs LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX.
    – percusse
    Jul 10, 2014 at 18:54
  • Also pdfLaTeX if you have the MyriadPro package installed.
    – Manuel
    Jul 11, 2014 at 9:36
  • @Manuel That's a very tricky thing in terms of copyright issues because the font exclusively belongs to Adobe and it is not released for free usage. Do you have a recent version somewhere? Or you mean mdsymbol ?
    – percusse
    Jul 11, 2014 at 11:29
  • @percusse That may be true (I know nothing about copyright), but there is a package, and a script to convert the .otf to .pfb and .afm to be used with pdfLaTeX. My point was that there is an available Myriad Pro for non-(Xe/Lua)TeX.
    – Manuel
    Jul 11, 2014 at 11:57
  • @Manuel Yes but it's not on CTAN (cannot be) that's why I asked. Where did you get it?
    – percusse
    Jul 11, 2014 at 12:03
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I think the simplest path is to use the EPS logos provided. With pdflatex you will have to convert the EPS file to PDF, but there are many ways to do that (see What are good ways to convert EPS to PDF?) including “automatically” as in my installation. If you download the LinkedIn logo “bug” as EPS, you get a file LinkedIn-InBug-2C.eps. Then use something like this document:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{graphicx}
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/190927/1402
\begin{document}
\raisebox{-0.35ex}{\includegraphics[width=2.5ex]{LinkedIn-InBug-2C}}%
linked.in/johndoe
\end{document}

and you get this:

sample code output

I had to manually adjust the width and \raisebox arguments to get the size and vertical placement right. There might be other ways.

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For \documentclass[...]{moderncv} I find very useful information here: Fixing the '\social' command of 'moderncv' for LinkedIN (intl profile)

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I do not have enough reputation to comment on @Werner's answer, hence I make it an answer.

As of 2021, being on Mac OS X using a current MacTex Version, one has to use fontawesome5 instead of the fontawesome package to avoid the errors documented here: FontAwesome font not found?

Therefore, the code of @Werner's answer can be adapted as follows:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome5}
\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{document}
\doublespacing% Just for this example
\verb|Facebook|: \faFacebook \quad \faFacebookSquare \par
\verb|Twitter|: \faTwitter \quad \faTwitterSquare \par
\verb|Github|: \faGithub \quad \faGithubSquare \par
\verb|HTML5|: \faHtml5 \par
\verb|LinkedIn|: \faLinkedin \quad \faLinkedinSquare \par
\verb|Pinterest|: \faPinterest \quad \faPinterestSquare \par
\verb|Google+|: \faGooglePlus \quad \faGooglePlusSquare
\end{document}
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