A Friendly Introduction to SVG

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jasonthorsness · 1d ago

Josh always has such high-quality content. This is a great article on practical applications with lots of working examples.

Sometimes I wonder if SVG are underutilized for things other than images. Since as the article shows, it can be used for a lot of cool text effects, interactive elements, maybe even layout.

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