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I wonder if we should encourage print designers to switch to svg (that is, if they don't already... it's not a world I know much).

I have in mind all those concerts or various events' png/jpeg files that are dropped on the web here and there. If they were svg files, it would be made easier for search engines to index their content.

Even without that, svg totally rocks. About a decade ago, I played with SVGWeb and made a showcase carousel presenting screenshots of projets with automated reflection on them (like it was common back then, a reverse image on bottom of actual image with a gradient from transparency to white to make an effect like if the ground was a mirror). I just had to upload a plain screenshot and everything was automated, I was mind blown, and surprised we seemed to go the canvas way instead (not so much, in retrospect).

Nowadays, I often make my icons as svg react components. It makes it so much easier to change their color or saturation on hover, this is very cool. We probably still have a long way to go to exploit all of svg potential.




If they're designing in Illustrator as most are they're usually working with vectors and have to use export to create their PNG/JPEG; SVG is right there as an export option. In my experience there's heavy inertia in the world of print though.




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