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Posted by Tiffany McAllister
Tiffany McAllister
25,806 Points

Bad SVG quality when scaling down

I'm currently working on a project with an SVG logo, however, when the image is scaled down by using the CSS height property it looks pretty terrible.

If I display it at a larger size, or zoom in, it looks great.

How can I get it to look great when it's scaled down?

Here are the images:

Small: http://imgur.com/oQgJJsN Large: http://imgur.com/9XWFFMr

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Is the logo an actual SVG when it's on the website? It's hard to tell as those two images from imgur are jpgs, so they really wouldn't represent the SVG logo accurately.

SVG's are resolution independent, so I'm not sure what's actually happening here. Is it actually live somewhere on the internet where we could actually see how it's being used?

Tiffany McAllister
Tiffany McAllister
25,806 Points
Tiffany McAllister
Tiffany McAllister
25,806 Points

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for your reply. It is actually an SVG on the website, I just took a quick .jpg screenshot so I could show what the quality difference was like.

I have made a codepen which shows how it is being used: http://codepen.io/tiffmc/pen/LVMxqG