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This is a great look at accessible SVG markup patterns by Marco Hengstenberg. Here’s the ideal example:

<button type="button">
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  <svg class="svg-icon"
     role="img"
     height="10"
     width="10"
     viewBox="0 0 10 10"
     aria-hidden="true"
     focusable="false">
     <path d="m1 7h8v2h-8zm0-3h8v2h-8zm0-3h8v2h-8z"></path>
    </svg>
</button>

I’ve been watching a lot of nature documentaries lately. I like how you can either pay super close attention to them, or use them as background TV. I was a massive fan of the original Blue Planet, so it’s …

Etsy moves away from an icon font in production to using SVG. It’s going to be an inline <svg> system, but abstracted as a <etsy-icon> custom element for ease of use.

Two cents:

• I could see the need for that

High five to Dave Gandy and the Font Awesome team:

The Font Awesome 5 Kickstarter raised $1,076,940 with 35,549 backers, making it the most funded and most backed software Kickstarter of all time.

What’s do the funders get? 1,000 more …

Wenting Zhang created 512 (!) icons with just HTML and CSS. Usually just one element, the occasional extra element thrown in, and drawn with things like borders, backgrounds, and box-shadows.

Looks like the same bug bit Wenting that bit Nicolas …

Solid basics of an SVG icon system in this guide from Florens Verschelde, mixed with some good tricks: the two-color trick, pre-loading the sprite, and using custom properties for unlimited color variations. Also an interesting bit about using multiple methods …