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Cutouts
16.8.2021
Ahmad Shadeed dug into shape “cutouts” the other day. Imagine a shape with another smaller shape carved out of it. In his typical comprehensive way, Ahmad laid out the situation well—looking at tricky situations that complicate things.
The first thing …
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Superhero Animation Effect with SVG Filters
9.8.2021
Learn how to create an interactive superhero-like illustration effect for the web using SVG filters and masks.
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SVG Gobbler
6.8.2021
Great little project from Ross Moody:
SVG Gobbler is a browser extension that finds the vector content on the page you’re viewing and gives you the option to download, optimize, copy, view the code, or export it as an image.
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My Struggle to Use and Animate a Conic Gradient in SVG
8.7.2021
The wonderful company I work for, Payoneer, has a new logo, and my job was to recreate it and animate it for a loader component in our app. I’ll explain exactly how I did it, share the problems I …
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How to Create CSS Charts With Interesting Shapes, Glyphs and Emoji
21.6.2021
Let’s forego the usual circles and bars we typically see used in charts for more eccentric shapes. With online presentations more and more common today, a quick way to spruce up your web slides and make them stand out is …
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Adding Shadows to SVG Icons With CSS and SVG Filters
11.6.2021
Why would we need to apply shadows to SVG?
Shadows are a common design feature that can help elements, like icons, stand out. They could be persistent, or applied in different states (e.g. :hover, :focus, or :active)
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Thumbnail Hover Effect with SVG Filters
9.6.2021
A simple thumbnail hover effect with an SVG filter distortion.
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How to Code a Crosshair Mouse Cursor with Distortion Hover Effect
26.5.2021
A quick tutorial on how to craft a fullscreen SVG crosshair mouse cursor with a special distortion hover effect.
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svg-loader: A Different Way to Work With External SVG
19.5.2021
SVGs are awesome: they are small, look sharp on any scale, and can be customized without creating a separate file. However, there is something I feel is missing in web standards today: a way to include them as an external …
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Swipey Image Grids
3.5.2021
I hope people think of SVG as a vector format that is good for drawing things. There is plenty more to know, but here’s one more: SVG is good for composition. You draw things at very specific coordinates …
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How to Add a Double Border to SVG Shapes
21.4.2021
Let’s say someone asks you to add a double border to some random geometric SVG shapes. For some reason, you can’t use any graphic editor — they need to be generated at runtime — so you have to solve it …
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Platform News: Rounded Outlines, GPU-Accelerated SVG Animations, How CSS Variables Are Resolved
2.4.2021
In the news this week, Firefox gets rounded outlines, SVG animations are now GPU-accelerated in Chrome, there are no physical units in CSS, The New York Times crossword is accessible, and CSS variables are resolved before the value is inherited.…
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Let’s Create an Image Pop-Out Effect With SVG Clip Path
2.4.2021
Few weeks ago, I stumbled upon this cool pop-out effect by Mikael Ainalem. It showcases the clip-path: path() in CSS, which just got proper support in most modern browsers. I wanted to dig into it myself to get …
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Creating Patterns With SVG Filters
15.3.2021
For years, my pain has been not being able to create a somewhat natural-looking pattern in CSS. I mean, sometimes all I need is a wood texture. The only production-friendly solution I knew of was to use an external image, …
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Platform News: Defaulting to Logical CSS, Fugu APIs, Custom Media Queries, and WordPress vs. Italics
12.3.2021
Looks like 2021 is the time to start using CSS Logical Properties! Plus, Chrome recently shipped a few APIs that have raised eyebrows, SVG allows us to disable its aspect ratio, WordPress focuses on the accessibility of its typography, and …
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Too Many SVGs Clogging Up Your Markup? Try `use`.
10.3.2021
Recently, I had to make a web page displaying a bunch of SVG graphs for an analytics dashboard. I used a bunch of <rect>, <line> and <text> elements on each graph to visualize certain metrics.
This works and renders …
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Circular SVG Text Animation
3.3.2021
Exploring some experimental circular SVG text effects for an intro animation.
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Three Ways to Blob with CSS and SVG
19.2.2021
Blobs are the smooth, random, jelly-like shapes that have a whimsical quality and are just plain fun. They can be used as illustration elements and background effects on the web.
So, how are they made? Just crack open an illustration …
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Simple CSS Line Hover Animations for Links
10.2.2021
A couple of simple & subtle CSS-based line hover animations for links.
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SVG within CSS
8.2.2021
Stefan Judis has a “Today I Learned” (TIL) post explaining how SVGs filters can be inlined in CSS. The idea is that CSS has the filter property which supports some built-in functions, like grayscale(100%) and stuff like that.
But …
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