Tag Archive: Compressed SVG
When composing this post, I decided that each of the accompanying icons would work well against coloured discs, gradually rotating in hue as they progressed down the page. The result was something a bit like this: I opted for 12 different colours, so each icon’s hue would change by 30 (hue being measured on a scale of 0-360 degrees). After some thought, I decided to create the discs programmatically using CSS. This has the following benefits over including them as part of the icon image: If I ever decide to add, remove, or edit page content, I wouldn’t need to …
One of the main considerations when developing the new Freakyleaf website was how to future-proof the site’s graphical elements. For the vast majority of sprites and graphics, it was a real no-brainer to choose SGV (Scalable Vector Graphics) over traditional file formats (such as JPG, GIF and PNG), to deliver resolution-independent visuals (with a suitable fall-back in place for those not-so-well-endowed web browsers, of course). So with this mind set I went about creating the various graphics for my website, including the main logo (the one top left of this very page). This was created in Adobe Illustrator and saved …