It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Y'all probably wouldn't be surprised if I told you it's pretty awesome for icons, and icon systems. SVG icon systems can, and perhaps should be quite easy. I'm a fan of just inlining those suckers, particularly when they are pretty simple.
But what else?… Read article
Here’s an idea! Let’s make an an HTML <video></video> play inside the shape of some letters. Like "Knockout Text" except instead of an image behind, it’s video. … Read article
Earlier this month on the Animation at Work Slack, we had a discussion about finding a way to let users pan inside an SVG.… Read article
I’ve recently published my first ever open source npm package! It makes SVG illustrations from unDraw into customizable React components.… Read article
Dave Rupert shows us all how to animate radial progress bars in SVG with a tiny script alongside the stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset properties:
… Read articleFor a client project we tasked ourselves with building out one of those cool radial progress bars. In the past, we’ve used entire Canvas-based charting libraries (156k/44k gzip), but that seemed like overkill. I looked at Airbnb’s Lottie project where you export After Effects animations as JSON. This is cool for complex animations, but the dependencies seemed
Knockout text is a technique where words are clipped out of an element and reveal the background. In other words, you only see the background because the letters are knocking out holes. It’s appealing because it opens up typographic styles that we don’t get out of traditional CSS properties, like color.
While we’ve seen a number of ways to accomplish knockout text in the past, there are some modern CSS properties we can use now and even enhance the … Read article
Do you remember being a kid, cutting out pictures from magazines? Did you glue them onto paper to create your own collages? This post is about cutting out images on the web using the CSS property clip-path. We will discuss how to do the cutting and how we can use these cut-out parts to create some interesting effects, combining these cut-out parts with the original image.… Read article
Creatives everywhere welcomed the 2016 new year with the spark of a colorizing technique popularized by Spotify’s 2015 Year in Music website (here is last year’s) which introduced bold, duotone images to their brand identity.
Well, thanks to the potentially life-saving powers of SVG, we can create these Photoshop-like “adjustment layers” with SVG filters.
Color is pretty good for separating things. That's what your basic pie chart is, isn't it? You tell the slices apart by color. With enough color contrast, you might be OK, but you might be even better off (particularly where accessibility is concerned) using patterns, or a combination.… Read article