Name: Practical SVG
Author: Chris Coyier
ISBN: 978-1-937557-42-3

foreword by Val Head

From software basics to creating icon systems and implementing fallbacks, Chris Coyier shows you how to harness the power and possibilities of working with SVG.

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Harness the power and possibilities of crisp, performance-efficient SVG with Chris Coyier. From software basics to build tools to optimization, you’ll learn techniques for a solid workflow. Go deeper: create icon systems, explore sizing and animation, and understand when and how to implement fallbacks. Get your images up to speed and look sharp!

n.b. This book is in its second printing; the paperback cover does not have a gatefold.

Topics Covered

The Basics of Using SVG
Software
Building an Icon System
Build Tools
Optimizing SVG
Sizing and Scaling SVG
Animating SVG
Some Design Features
Fallbacks

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Chris Coyier can teach you how to use one of the most powerful technologies for images on the web: SVG. This small book covers a ton of ground—accessibility, animation, icon systems, optimization, and more—making it a vital part of any web developer’s ongoing education.

Sarah Drasner

VP of developer experience at Netlify and staff writer at CSS-Tricks

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A quick, useful, and fun read. Chris’s breezy exposition style makes this guide to using SVG in the real world, from embedding to authoring to optimizing, feel like a friendly conversation.

Tab Atkins-Bittner

Web standards hacker at Google

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This book will teach you everything you need to know about using SVG today, in real projects of all sizes. Instead of being a dry syntax reference, it teaches you the bits you actually need, which would otherwise take years of experience to discover. Even better, everything is presented in a funny, conversational tone and is concise enough to be read during a (domestic!) plane ride.

Lea Verou

Author of CSS Secrets and UX researcher at MIT

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About the Author

Chris Coyier is a web designer and developer. He writes about all things web at CSS-Tricks, talks about all things web at conferences around the world and on his podcast ShopTalk, and cofounded the web-coding playground CodePen.