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Let’s get nuanced in this article and discuss the capabilities of both SVG and raster imaged so that you can make informed decisions in your own work.

Andy Clarke with a brand-new resource. It generates the sort of fun typography that Andy commonly uses in his own work that's geared towards cartoon headings.

What it looks like to troubleshoot one of those impossible issues that turns out to be something totally else you never thought of.

Well, it turns out that SVG's built-in animation features were never deprecated as planned. Sure, CSS and JavaScript are more than capable of carrying the load, but it's good to know that SMIL is not dead in the water as previously thought, and is actually well-supported.

A while back on CSS-Tricks, we shared several ways to draw hearts, and the response was dreamy. Now, to show my love, I wanted to do something personal, something crafty, something with a mild amount of effort.

Someone recently asked me how I approach debugging inline SVGs. Because it is part of the DOM, we can inspect any inline SVG in any browser DevTools. And because of that, we have the ability to scope things out and …

SVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that. It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel density, you can change the styles of the SVG on hover …

Say you have a line in SVG:

<svg<line x1="0" y1="30" x2="500" y2="30" stroke-color="#f8a100" /</svg

You can use the stroke-dasharray property in CSS to make dashes:

line {
  stroke-dasharray: 5;
}

That 5 value is a relative unit based …

So, SVG has this stroke-miterlimit presentation attribute. You’ve probably seen it when exporting an SVG from a graphic editor program, or perhaps you find out you could remove it without noticing any change to the visual appearance.

After a good …