The Background Blog
The Background Blog covers topics at the cross section of web design, entrepreneurship, and all things SVG.
New: 30 vector plant elements
Product Update: The plant collection features various plant branches and leaves that you can mix and match. There will be more specific types of plants illustrations to come.
READMatt Visiwig | Oct 29, 2024
New: 240 Geometric SVG Shapes
Product Update: I designed 240 geometric shapes for adding decorative touches. The shapes are based on rectangles, ellipses, triangles, to create various polygons.
READMatt Visiwig | Sep 27, 2024
Launched new shape divider generator
Product Update: This month I built a shape divider generator to output the CSS needed to use the shape dividers on your websites. It exports simple HTML and CSS.
READMatt Visiwig | Aug 19, 2024
Shape Dividers: Basic CSS
I made a video on how to add shape dividers to websites with SVG shape dividers and CSS. This is the code used in the video.
READMatt Visiwig | Jul 24, 2024
New: 120 Section Dividers
Product Update: Add section dividers to sites with this brand new collection of SVG shape dividers. Overcome the blocky-ness of website design, 120 section dividers included.
READMatt Visiwig | Jul 19, 2024
New: 120 Text and type icons
Product Update: 40 new icons have been added to the Triple Threat Icons collection. The icons are all related to formatting text, as you'd expect in a text editor.
READMatt Visiwig | Jun 10, 2024
New backgrounds and improvements
Product Update: A bit has changed over the last month or so, such as bug fixes, team plans, nav improvements, and new backgrounds.
READMatt Visiwig | May 10, 2024
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
