Product Updates
I try to continually add new content and improvements to the site, especially from pro-member requests and feedback. I share updates here.
~Matt Visiwig
Latest updates:
New: 30 vector plant elements
Published October 29The 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.
New: 240 Geometric SVG Shapes
Published September 27I designed 240 geometric shapes for adding decorative touches. The shapes are based on rectangles, ellipses, triangles, to create various polygons.
Launched new shape divider generator
Published August 19This 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.
New: 120 Section Dividers
Published July 19Add section dividers to sites with this brand new collection of SVG shape dividers. Overcome the blocky-ness of website design, 120 section dividers included.
New: 120 Text and type icons
Published June 1040 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.
New backgrounds and improvements
Published May 10A bit has changed over the last month or so, such as bug fixes, team plans, nav improvements, and new backgrounds.
New: 60 Website Cursors
Published April 10Implement custom cursors on your website. This set includes many traditional cursors such as arrows and pointers, and other icon-like graphics.
New: 120 shopping and social icons
Published March 15The Triple Threat Icons collection now includes various currencies, shopping icons, and a few social icons like the thumbs up.
New: 90 nature and travel icons
Published February 7The set now includes weather icons such as sun, moon, wind, snowflakes, rain, rainbow and nature icons like water, plants, trees, and mountain.
New: 90 foundational UI icons
Published January 8The 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.
New: 176 quotation mark designs
Published December 18These quote marks can help you level up your blockquotes, where you have a quotation mark behind your box of quoted text.
New: 120 device and web icons
Published December 4The 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.
New: 60 more icons added
Published November 22I 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.
New: 60 math and symbol icons added
Published November 7I 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.
New: 120 icons added to Triple Threat set
Published October 25The 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.
Introducing Triple Threat Icons
Published October 11I'm excited about releasing this special icon set, where each icon has multiple styles that work seamlessly together as one.
Added content-wide search
Published September 14Content-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.
New: 10 backgrounds with animation
Published September 1One of the most common requests I've been fielding from customers is to get more animated backgrounds, so I doubled the collection size.
New: 132 Geometric Doodles
Published August 15After starting off the doodle series with single purpose sets (underlines, circles, and arrows), I decided to create a wider range of decorative doodles.
New: 24 Animated loading graphics
Published August 1I designed 24 SVG preloaders. You'll be able to adjust the color, speed, and size of the preloaders. Link provided so you can view the collection.
New: 200 plump icons released
Published July 18This is version 1 of the first set of icons I ever designed. The icons are all designed on a 24x24 grid and are all a single solid color.
New: 45 Circle doodles
Published July 5The latest release of my doodle series features ovals that you can use to circle keywords or other elements. The doodle style is hand-drawn.
10 new backgrounds: blobs, depth, and gradients
Published June 27I've been rounding out the background collections, so they all contain closer to 20 backgrounds. That's why I created for various collections this time.
New: 64 Arrow doodles
Published June 15I continued designing more SVG doodle graphics, this time focusing on hand-drawn arrows. One of the new features I've added is that these arrows can be rotated.
New: 48 Underline doodles
Published June 1I designed and added a new collection to the SVG elements section of the site. Pro members get access to all 48 SVG underlines.
New SVG Elements: List Item Bullets
Published May 15I created and published a new set of icons, specifically meant for list items, you know those unordered lists that usually have blocks dots, aka HTML bullets.
Added search to help you find backgrounds
Published May 1I added the ability to search backgrounds. You can find the search page under Backgrounds > Search Backgrounds or by visiting svgbackgrounds.com/search
Introduction of SVG Elements
Published April 19The site has major developments, I added a new section that allows SVG Backgrounds to offer more than backgrounds. The site will now offer various types of SVGs
Improved the SVG to CSS converter
Published January 17When I launched in 2018, supporting older browsers meant we had to URL encode most of the special characters, but now there is a more modern approach.
10 new geometric patterns added
Published October 20The latest update include 10 new repeating patterns with a mic of hexagonal, earthy, and stipe designs.
Save your own colors with this new feature
Published September 20You can now save up to 10 brand colors, which are available for quick selection in the background editor.
5 new mesh gradient backgrounds added
Published August 12Mesh gradients have become quite popular, but SVG is limited to linear and radial gradients. I came up with some techniques to recreate SVG mesh gradients.
10 new animated backgrounds added
Published June 8Based on a user request, I designed a small set of 10 animated backgrounds.
Performance improvement: faster loading content
Published June 1After reports that the page that hosts the entire background collection was loading slowly, improvements were made to help the page and content load faster.
New export option: PNG
Published May 16You now can export backgrounds as a PNG, which is great for software that doesn't fully or partially support SVG files or code.
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