How to create an SVG, starting from nothing

An SVG is a text file. You can open one in a text editor, read it, and write your own. Knowing how makes every design tool that exports SVG easier to use.

The smallest useful SVG

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="10" fill="teal"/></svg>

The viewBox sets up a coordinate space, here 24 by 24 units, regardless of the size the image is shown at. Everything inside is drawn in those units.

Paths draw everything else

Most real SVGs are made of <path> elements whose d attribute is a list of drawing commands:

• M move to a point without drawing.
• L draw a straight line.
• C and Q draw curves, cubic and quadratic.
• A draws an arc.
• Z closes the shape.

Uppercase commands use absolute coordinates; lowercase ones are relative to the last point.

Tools that write it for you

Inkscape is free and saves SVG natively. Figma and Illustrator export it. Whatever you use, run the output through SVGO, which strips the editor metadata and can often cut the file size substantially.

What you could build here

Three directions that would work on this name. None of them is the only answer — it is your name once it is yours.

1. An in-browser SVG editor. Draw, export, done. No account, no install.
2. An icon maker. Templates, a colour picker and export in every size a web project needs.
3. A tutorial site. SVG from first path to animation, for developers who learn by doing.

Tools

• InkscapeFree, open-source vector editor
• SVGOThe standard SVG optimiser
• Text Diff OnlineFree side-by-side text comparison

Who you would be buying from

We build and run the sites below. That is the whole pitch: this name is not sitting in a speculator's spreadsheet — it comes from people who make things on the web and know what a good name is worth to someone who is going to use it.

• OMXUSThe studio behind all of this — software, licensing, and the infrastructure the rest of these sites run on.
• DnD Dice RollerA dice tool with no ads, no sign-up and no loading screen. It exists because every other one is exhausting.
• Legend RollerCharacter sheets, campaign rolling and party state, built for people who actually run games weekly.
• HorrorMoviesListCurated horror with real writing behind the picks, not scraped metadata dressed up as a list.
• MyNESGamesYour own NES ROMs, playable in a browser tab, with nothing uploaded anywhere.
• VoteAussieDigital identity with no central authority — Australia already runs elections without ID, so this asks why the internet cannot.
• The Price of WarA 3D memorial that makes the number of dead something you have to move through rather than read.
• NumeroscopeNumerology written honestly — for reflection, not prophecy. Proof that a mystical niche can be done without lying to anyone.
• Text Diff OnlinePaste two things, see what changed. Free, instant, nothing leaves the browser.
• NeuAIs ObservatoryA modular observatory for watching how AI systems actually behave.

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