The Background Blog
The Background Blog covers topics at the cross section of web design, entrepreneurship, and all things SVG.
New: 30 Security Shield Shapes
Product Update: This set of graphics can help you create security certificates and badge graphics for your website footer.
READMatt Visiwig | Jun 30, 2025
New: 66 horizonal rule designs
Product Update: The default HTML horizontal rule styling is quite limiting. SVG easily let's you add non-blocky designs, curvy shapes, and fun repeating patterns.
READMatt Visiwig | May 30, 2025
I launched TinyVectors.com
I created a new website and resource for AI-generated illustrated vectors.
READMatt Visiwig | May 15, 2025
New: 30 Award Seals
Product Update: These seals can be used as solid shapes or outlines, and are for when you want to show off your achievements or awards on your website or elsewhere.
READMatt Visiwig | Apr 30, 2025
New: 10 animated line backgrounds
Product Update: The designs feature lines in stripe-, grid-, and ring- formations, with low-motion animations to keep the designs subtle and suitable for use as backgrounds.
READMatt Visiwig | Mar 31, 2025
New: 90 game icons added to collection
Product Update: I added 30 new SVG icons in 3 styles (outline, duo-tone, and solid) to the Triple Threat icon collection, with a theme of gaming and entertainment.
READMatt Visiwig | Feb 28, 2025
New: 10 torn-paper and shadow backgrounds
Product Update: I created 5 backgrounds that can be used as shape dividers with the paper tear effect, as well as 5 backgrounds with the use of shadows and layers.
READMatt Visiwig | Jan 31, 2025
New: 40 SVG Frames
Product Update: DIV containers are boxy rectangles by default. I created this set of border frames to help create more decorative and interesting designs.
READMatt Visiwig | Dec 31, 2024
New: 10 Winter Holiday Backgrounds
Product Update: The holiday backgrounds include a snowman, wintery forest scenes, Christmas lights, a Chanukah menorah pattern and snowflake backgrounds.
READMatt Visiwig | Nov 30, 2024
New: 30 vector plant elements
Product Update: The plant collection features various plant branches and leaves that you can mix and match. There will be more specific types of plants illustrations to come.
READMatt Visiwig | Oct 29, 2024
New: 240 Geometric SVG Shapes
Product Update: I designed 240 geometric shapes for adding decorative touches. The shapes are based on rectangles, ellipses, triangles, to create various polygons.
READMatt Visiwig | Sep 27, 2024
Launched new shape divider generator
Product Update: This month I built a shape divider generator to output the CSS needed to use the shape dividers on your websites. It exports simple HTML and CSS.
READMatt Visiwig | Aug 19, 2024
Shape Dividers: Basic CSS
I made a video on how to add shape dividers to websites with SVG shape dividers and CSS. This is the code used in the video.
READMatt Visiwig | Jul 24, 2024
New: 120 Section Dividers
Product Update: Add section dividers to sites with this brand new collection of SVG shape dividers. Overcome the blocky-ness of website design, 120 section dividers included.
READMatt Visiwig | Jul 19, 2024
