Articles Tagged svg icons

Nicolas Gallagher:

At Twitter I used the approach described here to publish the company’s SVG icon library in several different formats: optimized SVGs, plain JavaScript modules, React DOM components, and React Native components.

There is no One True Way^© to make an SVG icon system. The only thing that SVG icon systems have in common is that, somehow, some way, SVG is used to show that icon. I gotta find some time to write up a post that goes … Read article

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

<button type="button">
  Menu
  <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>

When you use a bit of inline <svg> and you don't set height and width, but you do set a viewBox, that's a fitwigoo. I love the name.

The problem with fatwigoo's is that the <svg> will size itself like a block-level element, rendering enormously until the CSS comes in and (likely) has sizing rules to size it into place.

It's one of those things where if you develop with pretty fast internet, you might not ever … Read article

Bobby Grace, on the Dropbox Paper team:

On the engineering side, we use inline SVGs. These have many advantages. One advantage is that SVG is a well-structured format that we can manipulate with code. Paper is also using React and has a component for inserting icons.

They:

1. Use a single Sketch file, checked into the repo, as the place to design and house all the icons.
2. Use gulp-sketch to extract them all individually.
3. The build script continues by optimizing them

There is an interesting gotcha about the fill-rule attribute of SVG, detailed here by Anthony Collurafici.

Fill-Rule is an SVG property that basically defines how to determine what shapes are filled or subtracted from the shape. The default SVG value is "nonzero", and this is what Android requires. Unfortunately, Sketch uses "evenodd". Luckily Sketch provides all the features we need to convert our shapes from "evenodd" to "nonzero". And its now even easier in Sketch 42.

The direction you draw … Read article

Another day, another design system deciding an SVG icon system is the way to go.

Everybody has their own set of considerations when making a choice like this. Scott Mathis documents the major considerations for Clarity: Opting-out, sizing, multi-colors, interactivity, scale, and the future. Based on these, they actually ended up on a custom element (<clr-icon>, which is inline <svg> under the hood), just like Etsy.… Read article

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 abstraction going away if we had a more convient syntax for <use> available, like: <svg use="icons.svg#cart" />
• I like how dedicated they are to icon consistency. I struggle with this a lot. An SVG icon process can be so easy

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 icons, icon font ligatures (a uniquely cool thing fonts can do, like turn "right arrow" into ➡, which can be an accessibility win), and, drum roll please, an SVG framework that will be open sourced. … Read article