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Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste
- visiwig 6mo agoEach one can be copied as inline SVG or CSS using the background-image property with a data URI. Most are under 1KB.
- starkparker 6mo agoWhat's the license?
- visiwig 6mo agoThe license can be found here: svgbackgrounds.com/license Summary: You can use graphics in personal or commercial projects, you cannot use the graphics as the primary integrity of your product, you must provide attribution (svgbackgrounds.com/attribution) And before anyone rips off my head, attribution can be placed inside commented out code, so it doesn't need to take away from your design.
- HalawehMohann49 6mo ago[flagged]
- dormento 6mo agoThis rocks. Thank you!
- visiwig 6mo agoGlad you think so, you're welcome, enjoy!
- dylanhouli 6mo agoGreat idea man, must be pulling in some good SEO traffic as well.
- visiwig 6mo agoYes, I was lucky enough to find a keyword domain that was available. Would recommend :)
- Frannky 6mo agoLike this user has a comment history of hyping show HN
- dylanhouli 6mo agoI mean isn't that what show HN is for? Plus wasn't just hype, I was generally interested in getting more info on the SEO side of this project. I've had a lot of nice people try out my own projects and leave comments in the past and it meant a lot to me so I'm just trying to pass that forward.
- throwaway2046 6mo agoThese are beautiful, thank you for sharing. I really like the one with the triangles, was it inspired by Rule 30? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30
- visiwig 6mo agoNo I've never heard about Rule 30, I would have been nervous to click that link if it wasn't leading to a Wikipedia article, phew, but the concept is quite cool and inspiring. Thanks for sharing that with me!
- hju22_-3 6mo agoThe notice about having "access" to the backgrounds is sticky, and takes up one third of the screen on mobile with no way to remove it . . . Why?
- andai 6mo agoYou have access. Enjoy! Edit: upon further investigation, access isn't something that's just thrown around willy nilly! It usually goes for $120/yr!
- visiwig 6mo agoFair point. Once you click a thumb to preview the button, it becomes the UI to manipulate the backgrounds. I'll take a look and rethink the setup.
- aerhardt 6mo agoThis is very cool but hasn’t it been around for like a decade?
- visiwig 6mo agoGood memory. I launched in 2018 (8 years ago) and have been adding more graphics over the years -- doubling this specific collection / freebies.
- pseudosavant 6mo agoI'm a sucker for this kind of stuff, but I'm usually disappointed after clicking the link. These on the other hand are excellent, and that they have configurable options like stroke, color, etc is gravy on the top. Thanks for sharing!
- visiwig 6mo agoThanks for the kind words! I've played around a lot with SVG and love how you can change various attributes to achieve cool effects.
- thekevan 6mo agoThis is top notch, great work!
- visiwig 6mo agoHey thanks!
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- visiwig 6mo agoGlad I shared at the right time :)
- Theodores 6mo agoWhat is your authoring tool for SVG? The SVG code is well written. It is neither Adobe bloat-spam-slop and neither is it overly SVGOMG'd. For picky SVG people you could have some easy way to present the code. Only a minority value quality SVG, artworkers do not look at SVG code and coders just see SVG as 'assets' from the artworker. SVG therefore has not evolved to a full art form.
- visiwig 6mo agoHey great eye. I generally design in Illustrator with a plugin by Astute graphics that allows me to reduce unnecessary anchor points, run the exported SVG through SVGOMG, and then spend solid time hand coding each background in VS Code with the SVG extension by Jock that let's me see a live preview. Then on the actual site the customizer script I wrote will catch some attributes that aren't needed and remove them, but it's far from perfect.
- Theodores 6mo agoHave you tried the Jetbrains tools? The free one - WebStorm - comes with live preview. Nowadays I put my SVG for icons in CSS as pseudocode elements. This means you can't 'use' or 'currentColor', but I am okay with that for icons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Verou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Verou Lea Verou got me started on this particular technique, the gotcha is that you have to escape the hash characters with %023. Her presentations can be found on Youtube, and Lea also has a fab website.
- visiwig 6mo agoI'm not familiar with, and have not tried, any of the Jetbrains tools. When you say psuedocode, are you talking ::before ::after or something else? I've used svg icons on elements as background-image DataURIs -- probably similar if not the same thing. Yes I know who Lea Verou is and she's influenced one of my SVG tools I've released.
- Frannky 6mo agoI am very confused by the comments, they seem too excited for this... Are they real or paid bots? If they are real, kudos to OP
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- Frannky 6mo agoIt may also be that I am just comment AI paranoid, but yeah, I find myself a lot guessing if there's a person behind a comment or not
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- j45 6mo agoThere’s likely folks who discovered to that svgs could do many amazing things, except the tooling didn’t seem to be readily available. Now when I see someone build something working with SVG, I check it out to see how it might compare to another way of doing it.
- mikodin 6mo agoUnclear but I will say upon opening the site I was sparked with joy and excitement to use them
- visiwig 6mo agoHey thanks, I didn't pay for bots, unsure how to prove that though.
- oniony 6mo agoYour bank statements for the last six months should be sufficient.
- postsantum 6mo agoI wish I was able to be excited over svg backgrounds. How different life would be..
- BoppreH 6mo agoThose are excellent! The orange shingles are my favorite. Though I think some of them are not working on Firefox; the blue and green vortices are rendered as a single blue rectangle and a single green hexagon. I wonder how people are using them in a way that is not distracting to the main content. I've found that high-frequency patterns (small details with sharp transitions) can be a bit distracting, but I haven't found a good solution that doesn't compromise the beauty of the backgrounds.
- echoangle 6mo agoI think it’s kind of common to have the background for the whole document and then have an overlay with a solid color (and maybe less-than-100% opacity if you’re daring) on which the main content with all the text is shown. This works best for browser that are full screen on PC screens of course where you want to limit text width anyways. On mobile or narrow windows, you don’t have a lot of space to show the background.
- BoppreH 6mo agoThanks. I'm already doing something similar, but I feel like the background that is visible on the sides is still somewhat distracting. Might be my imagination though.
- dietr1ch 6mo agoI think that keeping it fixed on scrolling and giving it low saturation should be enough to keep them from being distracting. And obviously, no animations, although a really slow one might work.
- visiwig 6mo agoI took a look at FireFox and I think it's working, but not obvious that you need to slide the top range slider for the full effect. It would look better if I reversed the effect, I'll have to rethink that.
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- jjwiseman 6mo agoI find it odd that there's a custom of blurring or obscuring exactly the thing I'm interested in when I show interest in it by mousing over it.
- visiwig 6mo agoFair, I was fine going this direction because you're a click a way from get the full view and with the hover there isn't much more "preview" to show. My number one priority with the hover was making it obvious the given thumb is interactive.
- yesthisiswes 6mo agoThese are awesome! I’d love to use some of these for my solitaire game. Weird thing when I preview one of the backgrounds then scroll down the page on mobile the images disappear. I have to refresh the page to view all the backgrounds again after selecting one. I wonder if you should add names for the patterns so we can pick favorites?
- visiwig 6mo agoHmmm, that doesn't sound right. Do you mind reaching out to me via the contact form and dropping any more details such as device/browser? BTW, each background does have name, but I hide that on mobile since real estate is limited.
- gerdesj 6mo agoNot one of these efforts emulate <blink />. I want my money back.
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- democracy 6mo agoit's great work man - been using your backgrounds for long long time now!
- visiwig 6mo agoMuch appreciated, always nice to hear that :)
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- tclancy 6mo agoTell me more.
- wackget 6mo agoThese are great. Please consider adding a visible <textarea> with the CSS instead of relying on "click to copy" buttons. For security reasons, some users/browsers disable access to the clipboard which means there's no fallback way to copy the CSS.
- visiwig 6mo agoSolid point, I used to do this, and it wouldn't be hard to go back or add a show code button so users can copy the CSS as text.
- karlshea 6mo agoHey thanks so much! I actually found your site a bit over a year ago while I was redoing my portfolio and used one for my header.
- visiwig 6mo agoYou're welcome. Glad you found something useful!
- ksymph 6mo agoHmm, the parabolic ones seem to be broken? Both on FF and Chromium, they just display as an outline of a single shape on a black background.
- lelanthran 6mo ago> Hmm, the parabolic ones seem to be broken? Both on FF and Chromium, they just display as an outline of a single shape on a black background. Move the sliders.
- ksymph 6mo agoWhoopsie, thanks
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- rcarmo 6mo agoThese are pretty nice, congrats
- visiwig 6mo agoThank you!
- lakpahana 6mo agocomments ...
- dirkc 6mo agoI like your interface for switching between the backgrounds and having a small panel to tweak the parameters. I played around with procedural patterns using SVG/canvas/webgl a while back and this makes me feel like re-packaging the way it's represented.
- visiwig 6mo agoThanks, I've designed a few UIs for manipulating graphics and spent a few tries iterating and improving this one in particular. There was a need to show as much background as possible, sometimes the limitations lead to some creative choices. I'm quite pleased how it came out myself.
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- termwatch 6mo agoi did not know that i needed this until now
- visiwig 6mo agocool, hope you find something useful!
- shellerik 6mo agoFYI - the previews do not work if you have the Dark Reader plugin enabled in your browser.
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- Ashkaan 6mo agoFantastic!