Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. These graphics can consist of paths, images, and/or text that are able to be scaled and resized without losing image quality. Inline SVG refers to the embedded code written to generate these graphics in the browser.

Perhaps you've heard of data URIs. It's a really nice way of including a resource that would have otherwise been a separate HTTP request. The format that you use in a data URI can vary. Essentially you just tell it what content type it is (e.g. image/png), semicolon, then the data of that file.

We can use SVG in data URI, but it works for Webkits+Fx only. With encoding SVG in data URI works in all modern browsers! : )

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SVG files, especially exported from various editors, usually contains a lot of redundant and useless information such as editor metadata, comments, hidden elements, default or non-optimal values and other stuff that can be safely removed or converted without affecting SVG rendering result. SVGO to the help. + https://github.com/svg/svgo-gui

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Grunticon makes it easy to use HD-ready (retina) vector illustrations, icons, and background images in your web project without the hassles of spotty browser compatibility. The tool processes a set of SVG files, generates PNG fallback images for legacy browsers, and exports a demo page showing how to use the final icons. Visit the GitHub repo for the command line version or to learn more about how grunticon works.
To start, export SVG files for each of your images, drop those files onto the grumpy animal above, then click the 'Downlode it!" button to grab the files.
Once downloaded, check out preview.html to see a preview of your icons and their class names. To integrate in your site, you can drop the exported files into a folder on your site and paste the contents of grunticon.loader.txt into the head section of your HTML templates. Note: Be sure to replace the 4 [YOUR PATH HERE] parts of that text with the path to your own grunticon files (a root-relative path often works best across a whole site).

SVG profiles

SVG 1.0: all modern desktop and mobile browsers support SVG 1.1, so never choose this option.
SVG 1.1: You will almost always want this.
SVG Tiny/Basic: this is a subset of SVG intended for mobile devices. Only a handful of devices support SVG Tiny and not the full spec, so go for SVG 1.1.

Note: SVG Tiny does not reduce the file size, it's just a subset of SVG that is adequate for low processing power devices. It will discard gradients, opacity, embedded fonts and filters. Erik Dahlström says: All SVG 1.1 full viewers should be able to display all of the SVG 1.1 Tiny/Basic content (according to spec), and probably all of the SVG 1.2 Tiny content that Illustrator produces too.

Fonts note: if you don't have any text in your image this setting doesn't matter.

Adobe CEF: never use this option of you intend to display it in browsers. It's Adobe's way of embedding fonts in SVG files, as far as I know this is only supported by Adobe's SVG viewer plugin.

SVG: this embeds the font as SVG, which is not supported by Firefox, but is a good option if you intend to support only mobile devices (which usually run webkit).

Create outlines: you will want to do this most of the time, unless you have a large amount of text. If you have a large amount of text you will want to embed the font with WOFF but you will have to do this by hand.

Subsetting:

None: this will negate the previous setting and will not embed any font, if you don't care that the font falls back to some other font in the user's computer choose this.

Only Glyphs used: you will want this most of the time if you choose to embed the font. It only embeds the characters used so it doesn't inflate your file size.

[rest of subsetting]: this is fairly clear, you can choose to include the entire font or subsets of it. It is only useful if your SVG is dynamic and the text might change based on user input.

Images: this only matters if you are including bitmap images

Embed: this is usually what you want, it encodes the image as a data uri so that you just upload one file instead of the svg file with it's companion bitmap images.

Link: use this only if you have several svg files that reference one bitmap file (so it's not downloaded every time it renders the svg file).

Note that linked bitmap images won't display if the SVG is displayed through the <img> tag, because img doesn't allow loading external resources. Furthermore: webkit has a bug that does not display bitmap images within svg files even if you embed them. In short: use a plain <svg> tag if you intend to embed or link bitmap images, don't use <img>.

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