TinyVG

lastmod 2021-12-28created 2021-12-281 edits

Features

Started as an SVG library for the Zig language and ended up as its own vector format
Today, vector graphics mostly use SVG
- But implementing a new SVG library is hard
  - Because it is built on XML/CSS/ECMAScript and more
  - SVG itself is also so complex that images look different in each implementation
- Especially when <text> is included, results vary by system
  - So these days the workaround is to convert all Text to Paths
TinyVG has the 95% of SVG features that are really needed
- Excludes animation, scripting, external resources, hierarchical document structure, etc.
Design goals
- Compact binary encoding (smaller than SVG)
- Support for multiple platforms : GPU (Game), CPU (desktop apps), Web, Embedded
- A subset of SVG
- Usable for many purposes : app/toolbar icons, graphs and diagrams, comics/illustrations, etc.
- Simple implementation
Achieves 40% of the size of optimized SVG

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