From the course: Creating Web Icons with SVG
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Creating your own icons
- [Voiceover] If you can't find the SVG icon you're looking for, or you need a custom SVG to use in your web project, you can make it yourself using various graphic design tools. I personally use Adobe Illustrator, what you see here. A lot of my colleagues use Sketch. The tool really doesn't matter all that much. This course is not about creating SVGs though. So I won't go into great depth on this topic. If you want to learn more about how to create SVGs, or rather, how to use an application like Illustrator or Sketch that can export SVGs, then check out some of the other courses in the library dedicated to this process, including James Williamson's excellent Creating Icon Fonts for the Web. All that said, let me give you a five minute crash course on my process. For this course, I've designed this fairly complex graphic. You can find the Illustrator file in the exercise files for this movie, 0202. This graphic has several layers and some text. Now, so far, this is just a standard…
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