Painting - Painting Operations

In SVG, the method of applying visual information to a shape is called "painting."

Like other traditional design tools, SVG provides 2 types of painting operations: fills and strokes.

Shapes and text objects can be filled (ie. apply paint to the interior of the shape) and stroked (ie. apply paint along the outline of the shape).

With SVG, you can paint (i.e., fill or stroke) with:

• a single color
• a gradient (linear or radial)
• a pattern (vector or image, possibly tiled)
• custom paints available via the extensibility mechanism

SVG Offers features like gradients, patterns and transparency which allow it to compete head-on with other sophisticated formats.

As SVG provides designers with a complete palette of possibilities, there is little that can be rendered in other applications that cannot be rendered in SVG.