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Even though I am the kind of front-end engineer who manually cleans up SVG files when they are a mess, I never expected to become one of those people. You know, those crazy people that draw with code.

But here we are.

I dove deep into SVG specs last winter when I created a project to draw Calligraphy Grids, and even though I knew the basic structures and rules of SVG, it was only then that I fully tried to figure out and understand what all of those numbers meant and how they interacted with each other.

And, once you get the hang of it, it is actually very interesting and quite fun to code SVG by hand.

No <path> ahead

We won’t go into more complex SVG shapes like paths in this article, this is more about practical information for simple SVGs. When it comes to drawing curves, I still recommend using a tool like Illustrator or Affinity. However, if you are super into compounding your lines, a path is useful. Maybe we’ll do that in Part 2.

Also, this guide focuses mostly on practical examples that illustrate some of the math involved when drawing SVGs. There is a wonderful article here that goes a bit deeper into the specs, which I recommend reading if you’re more interested in that: “A Practical Guide To SVG And Design Tools.”

Illustrator, Affinity, and all other vector programs are basically just helping you draw on a coordinate system, and then those paths and shapes are stored in SVG files.

If you open up these files in an editor, you’ll see that they are just a bunch of paths that contain lots of numbers, which are coordinates in that coordinate system that make up the lines.

But, there is a difference between the all-powerful <path> and the other, more semantic elements like <rect>, <circle>, <line>, <ellipse>, <polygon>, and <polyline>.

These elements are not that hard to read and write by hand, and they open up a lot of possibilities to add animation and other fun stuff. So, while most people might only think of SVGs as never-pixelated, infinitely scaling images, they can also be quite comprehensive pieces of code.

How Does SVG Work? unit != unit

Before we get started on how SVG elements are drawn, let’s talk about the ways units work in SVG because they might be a bit confusing when you first get started.

The beauty of SVG is that it’s a vector format, which means that the units are somewhat detached from the browser and are instead just relative to the coordinate system you’re working in.

That means you would not use a unit within SVG but rather just use numbers and then define the size of the document you’re working with.

So, your width and height might be using CSS rem units, but in your viewBox, units become just a concept that helps you in establishing sizing relationships.

What Is The viewBox?

The viewBox works a little bit like the CSS aspect-ratio property. It helps you establish a relationship between the width and the height of your coordinate system and sets up the box you’re working in. I tend to think of the viewBox as my “document” size.

Any element that is placed within the SVG with bigger dimensions than the viewBox will not be visible. So, the viewBox is the cutout of the coordinate system we’re looking through. The width and height attributes are unnecessary if there is a viewBox attribute.

So, in short, having an SVG with a viewBox makes it behave a lot like a regular image. And just like with images, it’s usually easiest to just set either a width or a height and let the other dimension be automatically sized based on the intrinsic aspect ratio dimensions.

So, if we were to create a function that draws an SVG, we might store three separate variables and fill them in like this:

`<svg 
  width="${svgWidth}" 
  viewBox="0 0 ${documentWidth} ${documentHeight}" 
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
>`;

SVG Things Of Note

There is a lot to know about SVG: When you want to reuse an image a lot, you may want to turn it into a symbol that can then be referenced with a use tag, you can create sprites, and there are some best practices when using them for icons, and so on.

Unfortunately, this is a bit out of the scope of this article. Here, we’re mainly focusing on designing SVG files and not on how we can optimize and use them.

However, one thing of note that is easier to implement from the start is accessibility.

SVGs can be used in an <img> tag, where alt tags are available, but then you lose the ability to interact with your SVG code, so inlining might be your preference.

When inlining, it’s easiest to declare role="img" and then add a <title> tag with your image title.

Note: You can check out this article for SVG and Accessibility recommendations.

<svg
  role="img"
  [...attr]
>
  <title>An accessible title</title>
  <!-- design code -->
</svg>

There is usually some mathematics involved when drawing SVGs. It’s usually fairly simple arithmetic (except, you know, in case you draw calligraphy grids and then have to dig out trigonometry…), but I think even for simple math, most people don’t write their SVGs in pure HTML and thus would like to use algebra.

At least for me, I find it much easier to understand SVG Code when giving meaning to numbers, so I always stick to JavaScript, and by giving my coordinates names, I like them immeasurable times more.

So, for the upcoming examples, we’ll look at the list of variables with the simple math and then JSX-style templates for interpolation, as that gives more legible syntax highlighting than string interpolations, and then each example will be available as a CodePen.

To keep this Guide framework-agnostic, I wanted to quickly go over drawing SVG elements with just good old vanilla JavaScript.

We’ll create a container element in HTML that we can put our SVG into and grab that element with JavaScript.

<div data-svg-container></div>
<script src="template.js"></script>

To make it simple, we’ll draw a rectangle <rect> that covers the entire viewBox and uses a fill.

Note: You can add all valid CSS values as fills, so a fixed color, or something like currentColor to access the site’s text color or a CSS variable would work here if you’re inlining your SVG and want it to interact with the page it’s placed in.

Let’s first start with our variable setup.

// vars
const container = document.querySelector("[data-svg-container]");
const svgWidth = "30rem"; // use any value with units here
const documentWidth = 100;
const documentHeight = 100;
const rectWidth = documentWidth;
const rectHeight = documentHeight;
const rectFill = "currentColor"; // use any color value here
const title = "A simple square box";

Method 1: Create Element and Set Attributes

This method is easier to keep type-safe (if using TypeScript) — uses proper SVG elements and attributes, and so on — but it is less performant and may take a long time if you have many elements.

const svg = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "svg");
const titleElement = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "title");
const rect = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "rect");

svg.setAttribute("width", svgWidth);
svg.setAttribute("viewBox", 0 0 ${documentWidth} ${documentHeight});
svg.setAttribute("xmlns", "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg");
svg.setAttribute("role", "img");

titleElement.textContent = title;

rect.setAttribute("width", rectWidth);
rect.setAttribute("height", rectHeight);
rect.setAttribute("fill", rectFill);

svg.appendChild(titleElement);
svg.appendChild(rect);

container.appendChild(svg);

Here, you can see that with the same coordinates, a polyline won’t draw the line between the blue and the red dot, while a polygon will. However, when applying a fill, they take the exact same information as if the shape was closed, which is the right side of the graphic, where the polyline makes it look like a piece of a circle is missing.

This is the second time where we have dealt with quite a bit of repetition, and we can have a look at how we could leverage the power of JavaScript logic to render our template faster.

But first, we need a basic implementation like we’ve done before. We’re creating objects for the circles, and then we’re chaining the cx and cy values together to create the points attribute. We’re also storing our transforms in variables.

const polyDocWidth = 200;
const polyDocHeight = 200;
const circleOne = { cx: 25, cy: 80, r: 10, fill: "red" };
const circleTwo = { cx: 40, cy: 20, r: 5, fill: "lime" };
const circleThree = { cx: 70, cy: 60, r: 8, fill: "cyan" };
const points = ${circleOne.cx},${circleOne.cy} ${circleTwo.cx},${circleTwo.cy} ${circleThree.cx},${circleThree.cy};
const moveToTopRight = translate(${polyDocWidth / 2}, 0);
const moveToBottomRight = translate(${polyDocWidth / 2}, ${polyDocHeight / 2});
const moveToBottomLeft = translate(0, ${polyDocHeight / 2});

And then, we apply the variables to the template, using either a polyline or polygon element and a fill attribute that is either set to none or a color value.

<svg
  width={svgWidth}
  viewBox={`0 0 ${polyDocWidth} ${polyDocHeight}`}
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
  role="img"
>
  <title>Composite shape comparison</title>
  <g>
    <circle
      cx={circleOne.cx}
      cy={circleOne.cy}
      r={circleOne.r}
      fill={circleOne.fill}
    />
    <circle
      cx={circleTwo.cx}
      cy={circleTwo.cy}
      r={circleTwo.r}
      fill={circleTwo.fill}
    />
    <circle
      cx={circleThree.cx}
      cy={circleThree.cy}
      r={circleThree.r}
      fill={circleThree.fill}
    />
    <polyline
      points={points}
      fill="none"
      stroke="black"
    />
  </g>
  <g transform={moveToTopRight}>
    <circle
      cx={circleOne.cx}
      cy={circleOne.cy}
      r={circleOne.r}
      fill={circleOne.fill}
    />
    <circle
      cx={circleTwo.cx}
      cy={circleTwo.cy}
      r={circleTwo.r}
      fill={circleTwo.fill}
    />
    <circle
      cx={circleThree.cx}
      cy={circleThree.cy}
      r={circleThree.r}
      fill={circleThree.fill}
    />
    <polyline
      points={points}
      fill="white"
      stroke="black"
    />
  </g>
  <g transform={moveToBottomLeft}>
    <circle
      cx={circleOne.cx}
      cy={circleOne.cy}
      r={circleOne.r}
      fill={circleOne.fill}
    />
    <circle
      cx={circleTwo.cx}
      cy={circleTwo.cy}
      r={circleTwo.r}
      fill={circleTwo.fill}
    />
    <circle
      cx={circleThree.cx}
      cy={circleThree.cy}
      r={circleThree.r}
      fill={circleThree.fill}
    />
    <polygon
      points={points}
      fill="none"
      stroke="black"
    />
  </g>
  <g transform={moveToBottomRight}>
    <circle
      cx={circleOne.cx}
      cy={circleOne.cy}
      r={circleOne.r}
      fill={circleOne.fill}
    />
    <circle
      cx={circleTwo.cx}
      cy={circleTwo.cy}
      r={circleTwo.r}
      fill={circleTwo.fill}
    />
    <circle
      cx={circleThree.cx}
      cy={circleThree.cy}
      r={circleThree.r}
      fill={circleThree.fill}
    />
    <polygon
      points={points}
      fill="white"
      stroke="black"
    />
  </g>
</svg>

And here’s a version of it to play with:

See the Pen SVG Polygon / Polyline (simple) [forked] by Myriam.

When it comes to drawing SVGs, you may find that you’ll be repeating a lot of the same code over and over again. This is where JavaScript can come in handy, so let’s look at the composite example again and see how we could optimize it so that there is less repetition.

Observations:

• We have three circle elements, all following the same pattern.
• We create one repetition to change the fill style for the element.
• We repeat those two elements one more time, with either a polyline or a polygon.
• We have four different transforms (technically, no transform is a transform in this case).

This tells us that we can create nested loops.

Let’s go back to just a vanilla implementation for this since the way loops are done is quite different across frameworks.

You could make this more generic and write separate generator functions for each type of element, but this is just to give you an idea of what you could do in terms of logic. There are certainly still ways to optimize this.

I’ve opted to have arrays for each type of variation that we have and wrote a helper function that goes through the data and builds out an array of objects with all the necessary information for each group. In such a short array, it would certainly be a viable option to just have the data stored in one element, where the values are repeated, but we’re taking the DRY thing seriously in this one.

The group array can then be looped over to build our SVG HTML.

const container = document.querySelector("[data-svg-container]");
const svgWidth = 200;
const documentWidth = 200;
const documentHeight = 200;
const halfWidth = documentWidth / 2;
const halfHeight = documentHeight / 2;
const circles = [
  { cx: 25, cy: 80, r: 10, fill: "red" },
  { cx: 40, cy: 20, r: 5, fill: "lime" },
  { cx: 70, cy: 60, r: 8, fill: "cyan" },
];
const points = circles.map(({ cx, cy }) => ${cx},${cy}).join(" ");
const elements = ["polyline", "polygon"];
const fillOptions = ["none", "white"];
const transforms = [
  undefined,
  translate(${halfWidth}, 0),
  translate(0, ${halfHeight}),
  translate(${halfWidth}, ${halfHeight}),
];
const makeGroupsDataObject = () => {
  let counter = 0;
  const g = [];
  elements.forEach((element) => {
    fillOptions.forEach((fill) => {
      const transform = transforms[counter++];
      g.push({ element, fill, transform });
    });
  });
  return g;
};
const groups = makeGroupsDataObject();
// result:
// [
//   {
//     element: "polyline",
//     fill: "none",
//   },
//   {
//     element: "polyline",
//     fill: "white",
//     transform: "translate(100, 0)",
//   },
//   {
//     element: "polygon",
//     fill: "none",
//     transform: "translate(0, 100)",
//   },
//   {
//     element: "polygon",
//     fill: "white",
//     transform: "translate(100, 100)",
//   }
// ]

const svg = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "svg");
svg.setAttribute("width", svgWidth);
svg.setAttribute("viewBox", 0 0 ${documentWidth} ${documentHeight});
svg.setAttribute("xmlns", "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg");
svg.setAttribute("role", "img");
svg.innerHTML = "<title>Composite shape comparison</title>";
groups.forEach((groupData) => {
  const circlesHTML = circles
    .map((circle) => {
      return &lt;circle 
          cx="${circle.cx}" 
          cy="${circle.cy}" 
          r="${circle.r}" 
          fill="${circle.fill}"
        /&gt;;
    })
    .join("");
  const polyElementHTML = &lt;${groupData.element} 
      points="${points}" 
      fill="${groupData.fill}" 
      stroke="black" 
    /&gt;;
  const group = &lt;g ${groupData.transform ?transform="${groupData.transform}": ""}&gt;
        ${circlesHTML}
        ${polyElementHTML}
      &lt;/g&gt;;
  svg.innerHTML += group;
});
container.appendChild(svg);

And here’s the Codepen of that:

See the Pen SVG Polygon / Polyline (JS loop version) [forked] by Myriam.

Now, that’s all the basics I wanted to cover, but there is so much more you can do with SVG. There is more you can do with transform; you can use a mask, you can use a marker, and so on.

We don’t have time to dive into all of them today, but since this started for me when making Calligraphy Grids, I wanted to show you the two most satisfying ones, which I, unfortunately, can’t use in the generator since I wanted to be able to open my generated SVGs in Affinity and it doesn’t support pattern.

Okay, so pattern is part of the defs section within the SVG, which is where you can define reusable elements that you can then reference in your SVG.

Graph Grid with pattern

If you think about it, a graph is just a bunch of horizontal and vertical lines that repeat across the x- and y-axis.

So, pattern can help us with that. We can create a <rect> and then reference a pattern in the fill attribute of the rect. The pattern then has its own width, height, and viewBox, which defines how the pattern is repeated.

So, let’s say we want to perfectly center our graph grid in any given width or height, and we want to be able to define the size of our resulting squares (cells).

Once again, let’s start with the JavaScipt variables:

const graphDocWidth = 226;
const graphDocHeight = 101;
const cellSize = 5;
const strokeWidth = 0.3;
const strokeColor = "currentColor";
const patternHeight = (cellSize / graphDocHeight) * 100;
const patternWidth = (cellSize / graphDocWidth) * 100;
const gridYStart = (graphDocHeight % cellSize) / 2;
const gridXStart = (graphDocWidth % cellSize) / 2;

Now, we can apply them to the SVG element:

<svg
  width={svgWidth}
  viewBox={`0 0 ${graphDocWidth} ${graphDocHeight}`}
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
  role="img"
>
  <defs>
    <pattern
      id="horizontal"
      viewBox={`0 0 ${graphDocWidth} ${strokeWidth}`}
      width="100%"
      height={`${patternHeight}%`}
    >
      <line
        x1="0"
        x2={graphDocWidth}
        y1={gridYStart}
        y2={gridYStart}
        stroke={strokeColor}
        stroke-width={strokeWidth}
      />
    </pattern>
    <pattern
      id="vertical"
      viewBox={`0 0 ${strokeWidth} ${graphDocHeight}`}
      width={`${patternWidth}%`}
      height="100%"
    >
      <line
        y1={0}
        y2={graphDocHeight}
        x1={gridXStart}
        x2={gridXStart}
        stroke={strokeColor}
        stroke-width={strokeWidth}
      />
    </pattern>
  </defs>
  <title>A graph grid</title>
  <rect
    width={graphDocWidth}
    height={graphDocHeight}
    fill="url(#horizontal)"
  />
  <rect
    width={graphDocWidth}
    height={graphDocHeight}
    fill="url(#vertical)"
  />
</svg>

And this is what that then looks like:

See the Pen SVG Graph Grid [forked] by Myriam.

Dot Grid With pattern

If we wanted to draw a dot grid instead, we could simply repeat a circle. Or, we could alternatively use a line with a stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset to create a dashed line. And we’d only need one line in this case.

Starting with our JavaScript variables:

const dotDocWidth = 219;
const dotDocHeight = 100;
const cellSize = 4;
const strokeColor = "black";
const gridYStart = (dotDocHeight % cellSize) / 2;
const gridXStart = (dotDocWidth % cellSize) / 2;
const dotSize = 0.5;
const patternHeight = (cellSize / dotDocHeight) * 100;

And then adding them to the SVG element:

<svg
  width={svgWidth}
  viewBox={`0 0 ${dotDocWidth} ${dotDocHeight}`}
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
  role="img"
>
  <defs>
    <pattern
      id="horizontal-dotted-line"
      viewBox={`0 0 ${dotDocWidth} ${dotSize}`}
      width="100%"
      height={`${patternHeight}%`}
    >
      <line
        x1={gridXStart}
        y1={gridYStart}
        x2={dotDocWidth}
        y2={gridYStart}
        stroke={strokeColor}
        stroke-width={dotSize}
        stroke-dasharray={`0,${cellSize}`}
        stroke-linecap="round"
      ></line>
    </pattern>
  </defs>
  <title>A Dot Grid</title>
  <rect
    x="0"
    y="0"
    width={dotDocWidth}
    height={dotDocHeight}
    fill="url(#horizontal-dotted-line)"
  ></rect>
</svg>

And this is what that looks like:

See the Pen SVG Dot Grid [forked] by Myriam.

This brings us to the end of our little introductory journey into SVG. As you can see, coding SVG by hand is not as scary as it seems. If you break it down into the basic elements, it becomes quite like any other coding task:

• We analyze the problem,
• Break it down into smaller parts,
• Examine each coordinate and its mathematical breakdown,
• And then put it all together.

I hope that this article has given you a starting point into the wonderful world of coded images and that it gives you the motivation to delve deeper into the specs and try drawing some yourself.

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SVGator has gone through a series of updates since our last article, which was published in 2021, when it was already considered to be the most advanced web-based tool for vector animation. The first step toward more versatile software came with the mobile export feature that made it possible to implement the animations in iOS and Android applications.

The animation tool continued its upgrade with a series of new export options: video formats including MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, and WebM, as well as image formats such as GIF, Animated PNG, WebP, and image sequence. By covering a larger area of users’ needs, the app now enables anyone to create animated stickers, social media, and newsletter animations, video assets, and many more types of visual content on demand.

The goal of becoming a “one tool for all” still lacked the last piece of the puzzle, namely full support for Lottie files. Lottie, just like SVG, is a vector-based format, but it has even better comprehensive multi-platform support, a fact that makes it super popular among developers and design professionals. It is built for use across various platforms, enabling smooth integration into both web and mobile applications. Its file size is minimal, it is infinitely scalable, and developers find it straightforward to implement once they get familiar with the format. Lottie can incorporate raster graphics and also supports interactivity.

SVGator’s latest version has everything you need for your various applications without the need for any third-party apps or plug-ins.

Note: You can test all of SVGator’s functionalities free of charge before committing to the Pro plan. However, you can export up to three watermarked files, with videos and GIFs limited to basic quality.

In this article, we will follow a creation process made of these steps:

• Importing an existent Lottie JSON and making some minor adjustments;
• Importing new animated assets created with SVGator (using the library);
• Creating and animating new elements from scratch;
• Exporting the Lottie animation.

The sign-up process is simple, fast, and straightforward, and no credit card is required. Sign up either with Google or Facebook or, alternatively, by providing your name, email address, and password. Start a project either with a Lottie animation or a static SVG. If you don’t have an existing file, you can design and animate everything starting from a blank canvas.

Now that you’ve created your account, let’s dive right into the fun part. Here’s a preview of how your animation is going to look by the time you’re done following this guide. Neat, right?

After logging in and clicking on the New Project option, you will be taken to the New Project Panel, where you can choose between starting from a blank project or uploading a file. Let’s start this project with an existing Lottie JSON.

• Download the Lottie demo

1. Click on the Upload file button and navigate to the directory where you have saved your Lottie file.
   
   
2. Select the “Fast response.json” file and click Open.
   
   Hit play in the editor, and the animation should look like this:
   
   (Large preview)

Note: Make sure to hit Save after each step to make sure you don’t lose any of your progress while working on this project alongside our guide.

In this step, you will learn how to use the Library to import new assets to your project. You can easily choose from a variety of ready-made SVGs stored in different categories, load new files from your computer (Lottie, static SVG, and images), or save animations from other SVGator projects and reuse them.

In this case, let’s use an animated message bubble previously created and saved to the Uploads section of the Library.

Learn how to create and save animated assets with this short video tutorial.

• Download the message bubble Lottie animation

1. Navigate to the left sidebar of the app and switch to the Library tab, then click the “+” icon to upload the message bubble asset that you downloaded earlier.
2. After it is loaded in the uploads section, simply click on it to add it to your project.
   
   All the animated properties of the asset are now present in the timeline, and you can edit them if you want.
   
   Note: Make sure the playhead is at the second “0” before adding the animated asset. When adding an animated asset, it will always start animating from the point where the playhead is placed.
3. Freely adjust its position and size as you wish.
4. With the playhead at the second 0, click on the Animate button, then choose Position.

At this point, you should have the first Position keyframe automatically added at the second 0, and you are ready to start animating.

1. Start by dragging the playhead on the timeline at 0.2 seconds:
   
   
2. Then, drag the message bubble up a few pixels. The second keyframe will appear in the timeline, marking the element’s new position, thus creating the 2 milliseconds animation.
   
   Note: You can hit Play at any moment to check how everything looks!
   
   Next, you can use the Scale animator to make the bubble disappear after the dots representing the typing are done animating by scaling it down to 0 for both the X and Y axes:
   
   
3. With the message bubble still selected, drag the playhead at 2.2 seconds, click on Animate, and select Scale (or just press Shift + S on the keyboard) to set the first Scale keyframe, then drag the playhead at 2.5 seconds.
4. Set the scale properties to 0 for both the X and Y axes (in the right side panel). The bubble won’t be visible anymore at this point.
   
   Note: To maintain the ratio while changing the scale values, make sure you have the Maintain proportions on (the link icon next to the scale inputs).
   
   To add an extra touch of interest to this scaling motion, add an easing function preset:
   
   
5. First, jump back to the first Scale keyframe (you can also double-click the keyframe to jump the playhead right at it).
6. Open the Easing Panel next to the time indicator and scroll down through the presets list, then select Ease in Back. Due to its bezier going out of the graph, this easing function will create a bounce-back effect for the scale animation.
   
   Note: You can adjust the bezier of a selected easing preset and create a new custom function, which will appear at the top of the list.
   
   Keep in mind that you need at least one keyframe selected if you intend to apply an easing. The easing function will apply from the selected keyframe toward the next keyframe at its right. Of course, you can apply a certain easing for multiple keyframes at once.
   
   To get a smoother transition when the message bubble disappears, add an Opacity animation of one millisecond at the end of the scaling:
   
   
7. Choose Opacity from the animators’ list and set the first keyframe at 2.4 seconds, then drag the playhead at 2.5 seconds to match the ending keyframe from the scale animation above.
8. From the Appearance panel, drag the Opacity slider all the way to the left, at 0%.

For the concept behind this animation to be complete, let’s create (and later animate) a “new email” notification as a response to the character sending that message.

Once again, SVGator’s asset library comes in handy for this step:

1. Go to the search bar from the Library and type in “mail,” then click on the mail asset from the results.
2. Place it somewhere above the laptop. Edit the mail icon to better fit the style of the animation:
   
   
3. Open the email group and select the rectangle from the back.
4. Change its fill color to a dark purple.
5. Round up the corners using the Radius slider.
   
   
6. Make the element’s design minimal by deleting these two lines from the lower part of the envelope.
   
   
7. Select the envelope seal flap, which is the Polyline element in the group, above the rectangle.
8. Add a lighter purple for the fill, set the stroke to 2 px width, and also make it white.
   
   To make the animation even more interesting, create a notification alert in the top-right corner of the envelope:
   
   
9. Use the Ellipse tool (O) from the toolbar on top and draw a circle in the top-right corner of the envelope.
10. Choose a nice red color for the fill, and set the stroke to white with a 2 px width.
    
    
11. Click on the “T” icon to select the Text tool.
12. Click on the circle and type “1”.
13. Set the color to white and click on the “B” icon to make it bold.
    
    
14. Select both the red circle and the number, and group them: right-click, and hit Group.
    
    You can also hit Command or Ctrl + G on your keyboard. Double-click on the newly created group to rename it to “Notification.”
    
    
15. Select both the notification group and email group below and create a new group, which you can name “new email.”

Let’s animate the new email popping out of the laptop right after the character has finished texting his message:

1. With the “New email” group selected, click twice on the Move down icon from the header to place the group last.
   You can also press Command or Ctrl + arrow down on your keyboard.
2. Drag the group behind the laptop (on the canvas) to hide it entirely, and also scale it down a little.
3. With the playhead at 3 seconds, add the animators Scale and Position.
   You can also do that by pressing Shift + S and Shift + P on your keyboard.
   
   
4. Drag the playhead at the second 3.3 on the timeline.
5. Move the New Email group above the laptop and scale it up a bit.
6. You can also bend the motion path line to create a curved trajectory for the position animation.
   
   
7. Select the first keyframes at the second 3.
8. Open the easing panel.
9. And click on the Ease Out Cubic preset to add it to both keyframes.

Let’s animate the notification dot separately. We’ll make it pop in while the email group shows up.

1. Select the Notification group.
2. Create a scale-up animation for it with 0 for both the X and Y axes at 3.2 and 1 at 3.5 seconds.
3. Select the first keyframe and, from the easing panel, choose Ease Out Back. This easing function will ensure the popping effect.

Make the character smile while looking at the email that just popped out. For this, you need to animate the stroke offset of the mouth:

1. Select the mouth path. You can use the Node tool to select it directly with one click.
2. Drag the playhead at 3.5 seconds, which is the moment from where the smile will start.
3. Select the last keyframe of the Stroke offset animator from the timeline and duplicate it at second 3.5, or you can also use Ctrl or Cmd + D for duplication.
   
   
4. Drag the playhead at second 3.9.
5. Go to the properties panel and set the Offset to 0. The stroke will now fill the path all the way, creating a stroke offset animation of 4 milliseconds.

You can still make all kinds of adjustments to your animation before exporting it. In this case, let’s change the color of the initial Lottie animation we used to start this project:

1. Use the Node tool to select all the green paths that form the character’s arms and torso.
2. Change the color as you desire.

Once you’re done editing, you can export the animation by clicking on the top right Export button and selecting the Lottie format. Alternatively, you can press Command or Ctrl + E on your keyboard to jump directly to the export panel, from where you can still select the animation you want to export.

1. Make sure the Lottie format is selected from the dropdown. In the export panel, you can set a name for the file you are about to export, choose the frame rate and animation speed, or set a background color.
2. You can preview the Lottie animation with a Lottie player.
   Note: This step is recommended to make sure all animations are supported in the Lottie format by previewing it on a webpage using the Lottie player. The preview in the export panel isn’t an actual Lottie animation.
3. Get back to the export panel and simply click Export to download the Lottie JSON.

Now that you’re done with your animation don’t forget that you have plenty of export options available besides Lottie. You can post the same project on social media in video format, export it as an SVG animation for the web, or turn it into a GIF sticker or any other type of visual you can think of. GIF animations can also be used in Figma presentations and prototypes as a high-fidelity preview of the production-ready Lottie file.

We hope you enjoyed this article and that it will inspire you to create amazing Lottie animations in your next project.

Below, you can find a few useful resources to continue your journey with SVG and SVGator:

• SVGator tutorials
  Check out a series of short video tutorials to help you get started with SVGator.
• SVGator Help Center
  It answers the most common questions about SVGator, its features, and membership plans.

I’m working on a refresh of my personal website, what I’m calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn’t call it a “full” redesign. I’m just cleaning things up, and Polypane is coming in clutch. I wrote about how much I enjoy developing with Polypane on my personal blog back in March 2023. In there, I say that I discover new things every time I open the browser up and I’m here to say that is still happening as of August 2024.

Polypane, in case you’re unfamiliar with it, is a web browser specifically created to help developers in all sorts of different ways. The most obvious feature is the multiple panes displaying your project in various viewport sizes:

I’m not about to try to list every feature available in Polypane; I’ll leave that to friend and creator, Kilian Valkhof. Instead, I want to talk about a neat feature that I discovered recently.

Outline tab

Inside Polypane’s sidebar, you will find various tabs that provide different bits of information about your site. For example, if you are wondering how your social media previews will look for your latest blog post, Polypane has you covered in the Meta tab.

The tab I want to focus on though, is the Outline tab. On the surface, it seems rather straightforward, Polypane scans the page and provides you outlines for headings, landmarks, links, images, focus order, and even the full page accessibility tree.

Seeing your page this way helps you spot some pretty obvious mistakes, but Polypane doesn’t stop there. Checking the Show issues option will point out some of the not-so-obvious problems.

In the Landmarks view, there is an option to Show potentials as well, which displays elements that could potentially be page landmarks.

In these outline views, you also can show an overlay on the page and highlight where things are located.

Now, the reason I even stumbled upon these features within the Outline tab is due to a bug I was tracking down, one specifically related to focus order. So, I swapped over to the “Focus order” outline to inspect things further.

That’s when I noticed the option to see an overlay for the focus order.

This provides a literal map of the focus order of your page. I found this to be incredibly useful while troubleshooting the bug, as well as a great way to visualize how someone might navigate your website using a keyboard.

These types of seemingly small, but useful features are abundant throughout Polypane.

Amazing tool

When I reached out to Kilian, mentioning my discovery, his response was “Everything’s there when you need it!”

I can vouch for that.

Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

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I’m a big Lynn Fisher fan. You probably are, too, if you’re reading this. Or maybe you’re reading her name for the first time, in which case you’re in for a treat.

That’s because I had a chance to sit down with Lynn for a whopping hour to do nothing more than gab, gab, and gab some more. I love these little Smashing Hours because they’re informal like that and I feel like I really get to know the person I’m talking with. And this was my very first time talking with Lynn, we had a ton to talk about — her CSS art, her annual site refreshes, where she finds inspiration for her work, when the web started to “click” for her… and so much more.

Don’t miss the bit where Lynn discusses her current site design (~24 min.) because it’s a masterclass in animation and creativity.

Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Only Chris, right? You’ll want to view this in a Chromium browser:

This is exactly the sort of thing I love, not for its practicality (cuz it ain’t), but for how it illustrates a concept. Generally, tutorials and demos try to follow the “rules” — whatever those may be — yet breaking them helps you understand how a certain thing works. This is one of those.

The concept is pretty straightforward: one target element can be attached to multiple anchors on the page.

<div class="anchor-1"></div>
<div class="anchor-2"></div>
<div class="target"></div>

We’ve gotta register the anchors and attach the .target to them:

.anchor-1 {
  anchor-name: --anchor-1;
}

.anchor-2 {
  anchor-name: --anchor-2;
}

.target {
  
}

Wait, wait! I didn’t attach the .target to the anchors. That’s because we have two ways to do it. One is using the position-anchor property.

.target {
  position-anchor: --anchor-1;
}

That establishes a target-anchor relationship between the two elements. But it only accepts a single anchor value. Hmm. We need more than that. That’s what the anchor() function can do. Well, it doesn’t take multiple values, but we can declare it multiple times on different inset properties, each referencing a different anchor.

.target {
  top: anchor(--anchor-1, bottom);
}

The second piece of anchor()‘s function is the anchor edge we’re positioned to and it’s gotta be some sort of physical or logical inset — top, bottom, start, end, inside, outside, etc. — or percentage. We’re bascially saying, “Take that .target and slap it’s top edge against --anchor-1‘s bottom edge.

That also works for other inset properties:

.target {
  top: anchor(--anchor-1 bottom);
  left: anchor(--anchor-1 right);
  bottom: anchor(--anchor-2 top);
  right: anchor(--anchor-2 left);
}

Notice how both anchors are declared on different properties by way of anchor(). That’s rad. But we aren’t actually anchored yet because the .target is just like any other element that participates in the normal document flow. We have to yank it out with absolute positioning for the inset properties to take hold.

.target {
  position: absolute;

  top: anchor(--anchor-1 bottom);
  left: anchor(--anchor-1 right);
  bottom: anchor(--anchor-2 top);
  right: anchor(--anchor-2 left);
}

In his demo, Chris cleverly attaches the .target to two <textarea> elements. What makes it clever is that <textarea> allows you to click and drag it to change its dimensions. The two of them are absolutely positioned, one pinned to the viewport’s top-left edge and one pinned to the bottom-right.

If we attach the .target's top and left edges to --anchor-1‘s bottom and right edges, then attach the target's bottom and right edges to --anchor-2‘s top and left edges, we’re effectively anchored to the two <textarea> elements. This is what allows the .target element to stretch with the <textarea> elements when they are resized.

But there’s a small catch: a <textarea> is resized from its bottom-right corner. The second <textarea> is positioned in a way where the resizer isn’t directly attached to the .target. If we rotate(180deg), though, it’s all good.

Again, you’ll want to view that in a Chromium browser at the time I’m writing this. Here’s a clip instead if you prefer.

That’s just a background-color on the .target element. We can put a little character in there instead as a background-image like Chris did to polish this off.

Fun, right?! It still blows my mind this is all happening in CSS. It wasn’t many days ago that something like this would’ve been a job for JavaScript.

Multiple Anchors originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

If you’re looking to add a gritty, urban vibe to your designs, spray paint textures and backgrounds are the perfect solution.

Whether you’re creating digital artwork, branding, or eye-catching event graphics, spray paint textures add a layer of authenticity and creativity that’s hard to achieve with traditional tools. From street art-inspired projects to bold, edgy posters, spray paint elements can instantly bring a raw, artistic energy to your work.

In this post, we’ve rounded up the best spray paint textures and backgrounds for you to use in your next project. With a variety of options ranging from splatters and drips to fully painted surfaces, these resources give you the freedom to create designs that feel dynamic and expressive.

Spray Paint Leaks Backgrounds

Featuring colorful graffiti wall textures, this is a collection of abstract spray paint textures with a hand-crafted artistic look. They come as a pack of 10 unique and striking JPG backgrounds with a high resolution of 6000 x 4000, 300 dpi in RGB format. These vibrant designs are ideal for web and print applications – from social media covers to logo backdrops, posters, or invitations.

Horizon Spray Paint Texture Backgrounds

Experience the vibrancy of hand-crafted colorful spray paint textures. This creative bundle features 10 unique graffiti wall textures in an array of colors, providing a lively backdrop for web pages, social media profiles, apps, presentations and printed projects. Delivered in JPG format with high-resolution clarity (6000×4000, 300 dpi, RGB), these textures can bring dimension and depth to your design work.

Graffiti Spray Paint Textures

This is an impressive collection of 29 vibrant PNG images featuring spray paint graffiti style textures. Housed in a single .zip file, these high-resolution textures are ideal for different design needs – from adding a creative touch to projects, using for masks and overlays, or setting unique backgrounds. All the items use an RGB color space to enhance your creative process.

Paint Splatter Texture Backgrounds

This spray paint textures bundle offers a collection of 15 varied designs, each texture is presented in high-resolution 6000 x 4000px format. With a crisp 300 DPI and convenient JPG formatting, these spray paint textures are perfect for adding a unique and vibrant touch to any digital project.

Spray Paint Textures & Overlays

A unique spray paint textures pack offers authentic and high-resolution textures extracted from real spray paint patterns. With 10 varieties to choose from, these full transparency textures are flawlessly isolated and prepared as transparent PNG files. Adjust the dark grey opacity as needed, and enhance your design projects with these fine detailed, 48-megapixel sized overlays to bring a real-life spray paint effect.

Spray Paint Colorful Backgrounds

A vibrant collection of handcrafted spray paint textures, featuring graffiti-style elements perfect for a variety of digital and print uses. The set includes 10 distinctive, high-resolution (6000 x 4000, 300 dpi, RGB) JPG backgrounds, ideal for websites, social media, apps, presentations, logos, and print items like flyers, cards, posters, and more.

101 Blob & Spot Spray Shapes

Explore the world of spray paint textures with this collection of high-resolution designs and shapes. Crafted with inks on paper and meticulously scanned and edited in Photoshop, these unique abstract shapes can enhance any project, whether it’s web design, art, posters, flyers, banners, or covers.

32 Abstract Spray Paint Shapes

The 32 Abstract Spray Paint Shapes asset is an expansive assortment of unique, digitally enhanced PNG files of ink-sprayed shapes. With a high resolution of up to 6000 pixels, these beautifully abstract textures, originally painted on paper, can enhance a variety of projects including web design, art creation, and print materials like cards, posters and flyers.

Spray Paint Texture Bundle

A unique spray paint textures pack that showcases over 100 authentic spray paint marks in high-resolution png files that can be effortlessly integrated into your projects. This versatile bundle provides varying spray paint splatters, drips, and marks, which can be scaled, copied, pasted, or color-customized to add grunge detail to your artwork.

Spray Paint Drip Textures

Invite some vibrancy into your artwork with this collection of spray paint textures. These authentic, captivating textures are perfect for any design project and are easy to use. They offer impressive detail, having been scanned at a high resolution before being converted to vector formats. With their dark grey color, full isolation, and transparency in various formats, these textures are versatile and adaptable to your choice of software.

20 Paint Splatter Textures & Brushes

Explore new depths in your graphics designs with this spray paint textures pack. It offers high-resolution ink splatter effects, suitable for enhancing illustrations, photos, and website layouts, and even for creating realistic blood splatter. The pack includes 20 PNG files, 1 PSD file, and an ABR file with 20 brushes, guaranteed to add elegance and memorability to your designs while saving you time.

Paint Splashes Backgrounds

This is a collection of vibrant, urban-style designs filled with splattered acrylic paint reminiscing the energetic spirit of youth. These grainy textures serve as a multifunctional decorative asset featuring unique graffiti-like brush strokes and chaotic mud bursts. Ideal for youth apparel, advertising material, digital product presentations, and more.

Spray Paint Drips Textures

This is a versatile collection of 20 high-resolution PNG files with spray paint textures. With a vibrant RGB colour space, these textures are brilliant for incorporating into design projects, creative edits, background visuals, masks, and overlays. Their spray paint drip style serves as an innovative design element, adding a unique artistic flair to various creations.

Subtle Spray Paint Textures

This is a comprehensive set of gently sprayed textures, created from high-resolution scans of spray-painted paper and converted into multiple formats like AI, EPS, and PNG. Perfect for both Illustrator and Photoshop, these dark gray textures, crisply detailed and fully customizable, come with transparent backgrounds and can be paired with DRIP textures to add depth to your design projects.

12 Spray Paint Textures

An eclectic collection of abstract spray paint shapes as PNG files. These high-resolution shapes, crafted thoughtfully from ink on paper, are edited digitally for optimal use. They reach up to 9000 pixels in size and can significantly enhance visual arts projects, such as cards, banners, templates, websites, and more.

Paint Splatter Art Textures

This spray paint texture pack offers a collection of modern, abstract paintings that were originally created with real paint, then scanned at high resolution and converted to Vector EPS, AI, and PNG formats. Ideal for various design projects, these finely detailed textures come with fully isolated, transparent backgrounds.

20 Spray Paint Graffiti Texture

Explore your creative side with this unique spray paint texture pack. Featuring 20 PNG textures in stunning 8K resolution (6000 x 4000 px), it ensures compatibility with Photoshop and other graphics programs that support PNG files, promising to enhance any design project with a vivid, urban touch.

Spray Paint Splatter Brushes & Textures

This spray paint textures collection contains high-resolution, handmade ink splatter effects in a pack of 21 black and white jpg or png images. Perfect for adding texture, grunge effects, or realistic blood splatter to your designs. Incorporate these greyscale bitmaps into any application compatible with .jpg or .png files, offering easy layering and color changes in photoshop.

Free Spray Paint Textures

Free Abstract Art Spray Paint Texture

This beautiful spray paint texture features a colorful design with an abstract and artistic design. You can use it in various ways to create backgrounds as well as for adding textures to designs.

Free Spray Painted Fence Texture

This is a real photo of a spray-painted fence that features a very authentic design. It has a realistic look with a rusted metal fence background that will add a vintage feel to your design project.

Free Green Spay Paint Texture

You can use this spray paint texture to add a gritty look and feel to your posters, flyers, and various other designs. By changing colors, you can even make it look like a blood-splatter texture.

Free Spray Paint Texture Background

This free texture also comes with a green spray paint design. It features a stain-like design that you can blend with various graphics and backgrounds to create unique designs.

Colorful Free Spray Paint Texture

This is a free spray paint-style texture you can use to create colorful backgrounds. It features a sidewalk with spray-painted spots that add an authentic look to this textured background.