June 19th, 2019 ×
SVGs with Sara Soueidan
In this episode of Syntax, Wes is joined by Sara Soueidan, a freelance front-end UI developer and trainer. While Scott is taking a break to spend time with his new baby girl, Wes and Sara dive into all things SVG!
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Guests
Show Notes
6:05 - What are SVGs?
- It's an image you can edit
16:17 - Icon fonts
- Better tools
- Fails in certain areas
- SVG sprite icons
- Grunticon
24:24 - SVG files / Build tools
- SVGO / SVGOMG
31:50 - Where to find SVGs
- Noun project
- Exporting from Sketch/Illustrator/Figma
- Freepik
- Iconmoon
33:48 - What is the viewbox?
40:39 - Animating SVG
43:41 - Accessibility & text with SVG
45:44 - Graphing with SVG
- D3.js
47:58 - Filters
Links
- Font Awesome
- Grunticon
- Grunt
- gulp.js
- React
- Vue.js
- Sketch
- Illustrator
- Figma
- imagemin
- gulp-imagemin
- Gatsby.js
- gatsby-plugin-sharp
- jakearchibald/svgomg
- Noun Project
- Freepik
- Icomoon
- GreenSock
- Snap.svg
- SVG Animations: From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation By Sarah Drasner
- Codrops
- D3.js
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