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SVGO’s Missing GUI

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As I was designing the logo for Farai’s Codelab, I was annoyed at how big the Inkscape design was, especially for an SVG. I searched for a way to compress SVGs and found this. Playing with the toggles, I brought the SVG down from 31KB down to ~3KB. The 3KB version loses some detail, but it looks rad so I kept it.

svgo itself is a library, so I’ll set up a script to minify SVGs from there. Still, SVGOM is a good way to visualize SVG minimization. My goal is to be able to write SVG by hand, making them even smaler.