Tagged “svg”
SVG Crop
Here’s a handy-looking tool for the SVG editing toolkit.
Remove blank space from around any SVG instantly.
Swipey image grids (on cassie.codes)
A lovely post by Cassie Evans in which she demonstrates that SVG is not just for icons and illustrations. You might also reach for it to create a responsive, animated grid of images.
we have another grid at our disposal. SVG has its own internal coordinate system and it's responsive by design.
Hero Patterns: Free repeatable SVG background patterns for your web projects
From Steve Schoger:
A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects.
3 Popular Website Heroes Created With CSS Grid Layout (on Modern CSS Solutions)
Some serious CSS Grid positioning, image manipulation and alpha transparency ninjitsu on display here from Stephanie Eckles!
This episode explores creating website heroes - aka “headers” - with one of my favorite ways to use CSS grid layout: by turning it into a canvas.
Best practice techniques for SVG Icons
Here’s how I’d handle various common SVG icon scenarios with accessibility in mind.
SVG Backgrounds – Create Customizable, Hi-Def, and Scalable Backgrounds.
SVGs enable full-screen hi-res visuals with a file-size near 5KB and
are well-supported by all modern browsers. What's not to love?
Cassie Evans’s Blog
I love Cassie Evans’s new website design! It’s so full of personality while loaded with technical goodies too. Amazing work!
(via @stugoo)
Here’s a neat trick. You can use an emoji as a favicon! I’ve written previously about how to do favicons properly, but for a short-lived hack project you tend to just need something quick and dirty. Chris Coyier has also shared a nice lil’ Codepen website showing the technique in action.
Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here's how to turn any emoji into a favicon.svg:
— Lea Verou (@LeaVerou) March 22, 2020
<svg xmlns="https://t.co/TJalgdayix" viewBox="0 0 100 100">
<text y=".9em" font-size="90">💩</text>
</svg>
Useful for quick apps when you can't be bothered to design a favicon! pic.twitter.com/S2F8IQXaZU
A new technique for making responsive, JavaScript-free charts (DEV Community)
I wanted to see if it was possible to create SVG charts that would work without JS. Well, it is. I've also created an experimental Svelte component library called Pancake to make these techniques easier to use.
Awesome Stock Resources
A collection of links for free stock photography, video and illustration websites
Get Waves
I’ve been admiring the wave effect at the foot of banners on Netlify’s website and had noted that they were achieved using SVG. So this tool which helps you “make waves” is pretty timely!
How to control SVG icon size and colour in context
A while back I read a great SVG icon tip from Andy Bell which I’d been meaning to try and finally did so today. Andy recommended that for icons with text labels we set the width and height of the icons to 1em since that will size them proportionately to the adjacent text and additionally lets us use font-size to make any further sizing tweaks.
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