The Background Blog
The Background Blog covers topics at the cross section of web design, entrepreneurship, and all things SVG.
New: 60 Website Cursors
Product Update: Implement custom cursors on your website. This set includes many traditional cursors such as arrows and pointers, and other icon-like graphics.
READMatt Visiwig | Apr 10, 2024
New: 120 shopping and social icons
Product Update: The Triple Threat Icons collection now includes various currencies, shopping icons, and a few social icons like the thumbs up.
READMatt Visiwig | Mar 15, 2024
New: 90 nature and travel icons
Product Update: The set now includes weather icons such as sun, moon, wind, snowflakes, rain, rainbow and nature icons like water, plants, trees, and mountain.
READMatt Visiwig | Feb 7, 2024
New: 90 foundational UI icons
Product Update: The most common icons of this set of 30 (x3 styles) are chevrons, maximize/minimize, phone, and a few common UI tasks like delete, log in/out, and downloads.
READMatt Visiwig | Jan 8, 2024
New: 176 quotation mark designs
Product Update: These quote marks can help you level up your blockquotes, where you have a quotation mark behind your box of quoted text.
READMatt Visiwig | Dec 18, 2023
New: 120 device and web icons
Product Update: The new icons include electronic tech devices from smartphones and computer equipment to coding symbols and more. The Triple Threat Set is now at 480 icons.
READMatt Visiwig | Dec 4, 2023
New: 60 more icons added
Product Update: I added 20 new icons in each of the 3 styles (outline, solid, and duo-tone), icons include a question mark, webcam, target, lightbulb and question mark.
READMatt Visiwig | Nov 22, 2023
New: 60 math and symbol icons added
Product Update: I added 20 new icons consisting of math operation symbols and arrows. I'm continually adding new designs to build up this Triple Threat icon set.
READMatt Visiwig | Nov 7, 2023
New: 120 icons added to Triple Threat set
Product Update: The new direction of SVG Backgrounds is to expand from backgrounds into other SVG-based graphics. I've added close to 1000 graphics in the last 6 months.
READMatt Visiwig | Oct 25, 2023
Introducing Triple Threat Icons
Product Update: I'm excited about releasing this special icon set, where each icon has multiple styles that work seamlessly together as one.
READMatt Visiwig | Oct 11, 2023
Triple Threat Icons Documentation
Triple Threat Icons uses SVG and CSS magic to create multi-state website icons, where these icons can have a regular, hover, and selected state.
READMatt Visiwig | Oct 10, 2023
Added content-wide search
Product Update: Content-wide search has been on my roadmap for a while, but until my recent work building up the new SVG collections, hasn't been as necessary.
READMatt Visiwig | Sep 14, 2023
New: 10 backgrounds with animation
Product Update: One of the most common requests I've been fielding from customers is to get more animated backgrounds, so I doubled the collection size.
READMatt Visiwig | Sep 1, 2023
How to make animated loading graphics with only SVG
We’re going to create animated preloaders with SVG and nothing else. No CSS or JS is required. Once you know the basics, it’s easy to make variations.
READMatt Visiwig | Aug 25, 2023
New: 132 Geometric Doodles
Product Update: After starting off the doodle series with single purpose sets (underlines, circles, and arrows), I decided to create a wider range of decorative doodles.
READMatt Visiwig | Aug 15, 2023