Practical SVG

Chris Coyier

Practical SVG

About this Book

I wrote this book back in 2016. SVG wasn't new then, but it was starting to catch on a little bit more for front-end developers. I thought, and still think, SVG is a great tool for a lot of things on the web, and wanted to help keep that trend going.

Thank You

Thanks to SVG advocates that have convinced me SVG is good and whom I learned all this from, like Lea Verou, Chris Lilley (who tech-edited this book and ushered SVG into existence), Val Head (who wrote the lovely introduction), Sara Soueidan, Amelia Bellamy-Royds, and Fabrice Weinberg (who wrote a tool based on a silly idea I had for a SVG build tool that really got my brain cooking).

Thanks to Jeff Eaton for Dancing Queen, the technical project that capably extracted the contents of the final .epub file that A Book Apart originally produced. And then Mat Marquis for building this Eleventy site that took those contents and made them into this nice website that I and other author's who had booked in the now-defunt A Book Apart world.

foreword
introduction
Chapter 1. The Basics of Using SVG
Chapter 2. Software
Chapter 3. Building an Icon System
Chapter 4. Build Tools
Chapter 5. Optimizing SVG
Chapter 6. Sizing and Scaling SVG
Chapter 7. Animating SVG
Chapter 8. Some Design Features
Chapter 9. Fallbacks
conclusion
resources
references
Cover