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SVG files are everywhere

- [Instructor] SVG graphics are all over the internet, they're all over websites, they're all over digital design. You see them at data-driven infographics, zoomable, interactive maps, those little icons and glyphs you see everywhere, an up arrow, they're often SVG. Architectural renderings and design layouts, often SVG. Sketches, posters, line art of all kinds. Medical and scientific illustrations, technical illustrations, flowcharts, and SVG is the best format for graphics used in animation. Now, there's one thing you don't see on this list, and that's photos. You don't use SVG for photos, but for almost anything else, SVG is the best format for the web. Data-driven, scalable infographics are one of the hottest things now in web design. You create the graphic, a backend coder plugs in data, and the best way to deliver that graphic is an SVG file. Zoomable, interactive maps from the cosmos to planet Earth, to a local park. Best done in SVG. It's the only scalable vector graphic…

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