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Developers rarely get blocked by the main feature.

More often, it’s the small visual tasks around it that slow things down:
fixing an SVG, adjusting an icon, re-exporting assets, or keeping everything consistent across platforms.
IconVectors 1.50 is designed to help with that.

A simpler way to work on SVG icons, keep assets clean and consistent, and use the same workflow on Windows and macOS.

With full macOS support now included, it’s easier to handle visual polish as part of the normal dev process, not as a separate task.

See what’s new:
https://t.co/EGRdiMgSwz

#DevTools #SVG #AppDevelopment #IndieDev #BuildInPublic

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Pick a color once. Use it across your icon.

In IconVectors 2.10, your chosen color stays put as you select other elements.

Left-click for fill. Right-click for stroke.

A small detail that saves a lot of picking.

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@VerigateAI "Delete file" makes a better label than "trash", it describes what the button does, rather than what the icon depicts.

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@gabriell_lab Nice effect. I’d be curious how the frame rate changes as you add more points.

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Matching rounded corners by eye gets tedious.

In IconVectors 2.10, select several corners and drag one rounding handle to adjust them together.

A useful detail when refining folders, shields or other geometric icons.

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@ahmedelgabri @kepano @npmjs If those exports are inlined together, are marker IDs unique per diagram? Shared IDs can redirect arrowheads.

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@aviralj02 The viewBox padding still matters here; two 20px masks can make the actual icons look different sizes.

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@imsnk8 @Shpigford At 22px, fewer details and wider gaps usually help more than sharpening the larger version.

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@sanyampunia Nice trick. This is especially useful for icon-label pairs in toolbars and settings panels with wrapping text.

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@ElevenLabsDevs Can you compare estimated costs for the current and proposed configurations before applying a change?

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@abue_ammar Can users switch languages before signing in? That’s often where a language selector helps most.

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@istdrc Did adding Japanese and Korean require any changes to your button widths or icon spacing?

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You're adding a language selector to your app.

Flags, language names, or a globe icon?

We’ve been drawing icons for multilingual interfaces, and this question keeps coming up.
https://t.co/38sA3i3ri2

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@repalash Are you animating the Bézier control points for those bends, or subdividing the paths?

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@VaenshineX Moving that first handle also changes the starting tangent, while the ending tangent stays the same.

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Both endpoints are correct. The SVG outline is still wrong.

A nonlinear warp can bend the space between anchors. Here’s a visual example showing why subdivision matters, and when a single Bézier curve works better.

https://t.co/GR96ADueQA

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@iamvishal16_ios @bbbrint Was the export using the same scale factor as the canvas? That can change apparent line weight.

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@HashCons Exporting the SVG directly to PNG at twice the display size should give you sharper results than screenshots.

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@iabhi1610 @nitishkmrk @designsarpanch @me_Jahanvi That's the kind of attention to detail that makes a real difference at small sizes.

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Finding one good icon is easy.

Finding 50 that actually look like they belong together? Not so much.

Consistent strokes, proportions and visual style make a real difference in an application's UI.

Explore our different icon collections:
https://t.co/DWBL77gcW4