SVG Editing & Inspection Tools
Free, instant, browser-based tools to optimize, inspect, and fix SVG markup.
SVG exported from design tools is rarely production-ready. Figma, Illustrator, and Inkscape embed editor metadata, redundant attributes, and oversized viewBoxes that add file weight and complexity without improving quality. A few targeted fixes — stripping metadata, trimming the canvas, swapping brand colors — make SVG smaller, more maintainable, and more accessible.
The tools in this category cover the most common editing and inspection tasks: minifying markup without changing the visual result, swapping fill and stroke colors by picking from a live swatch list, checking for missing accessibility attributes, reading SVG path commands in a readable format, computing a precise viewBox, and trimming excess whitespace from the canvas edge.
All editing happens locally in your browser. Paste your SVG markup, get corrected output, copy and move on. No upload, no account, no changes persisted anywhere.
Tools in this category
SVG Optimizer
Remove comments, metadata, and redundant attributes from SVG markup. Minify or format the result — no upload required.
Open tool →SVG Color Swapper
Extract every color from SVG markup as a swatch and replace any of them with a color picker — live preview, instant copy.
Open tool →SVG Accessibility Checker
Check SVG markup for missing accessibility attributes — title, role, aria-labelledby, and more — with fix suggestions and an auto-fixed output.
Open tool →SVG Path Prettifier
Format a raw SVG path d attribute into readable output — one command per line, each labeled by type. Preview the path shape, copy prettified or minified.
Open tool →SVG viewBox Calculator
Calculate the correct viewBox from content dimensions and padding — uniform or per-side, with optional origin offset. Copy the attribute or the full SVG opening tag.
Open tool →SVG Crop / Trim Whitespace
Trim the viewBox to the actual content bounding box — removes excess whitespace from SVG exports. Add optional padding, then copy the result.
Open tool →SVG Viewer
Render SVG markup as a live preview and inspect its dimensions, viewBox, element count, and byte size — no upload required.
Open tool →SVG Validator
Check SVG markup for XML well-formedness errors — unclosed tags, mismatched elements, and malformed attributes — with line and column numbers.
Open tool →SVG Dark Mode Tool
Adapt SVG for dark mode — replace colors with currentColor or invert all values. Side-by-side light and dark preview.
Open tool →SVG ID Sanitizer
Prefix every id in SVG markup and rewrite all url(#…) and href references — prevents ID collisions when inlining multiple SVGs on one page.
Open tool →SVG Metadata Remover
Strip <metadata>, comments, XML declarations, and editor-specific namespaces (Inkscape, Sodipodi, RDF) from SVG markup — no upload required.
Open tool →SVG Minifier
Collapse whitespace in SVG markup to a single compact line — a fast, text-based pass that leaves every element, attribute, and value untouched.
Open tool →SVG Compressor
Shrink SVG file size by rounding coordinate and path precision and shortening hex colors — adjustable precision with a live size comparison.
Open tool →Frequently Asked Questions
What does the SVG Optimizer actually remove?+
The optimizer removes XML declarations, comments, metadata elements (<title>, <desc>, editor-specific namespaces like inkscape: and sodipodi:), redundant group wrappers, default attribute values that match the SVG spec defaults, and whitespace between elements. It leaves the visual content intact — paths, shapes, fills, and strokes are unchanged. The result is a smaller file that renders identically.
Why is SVG accessibility important?+
Screen readers and assistive technology process SVG differently from HTML. An SVG without a <title> element has no accessible name — a screen reader announces it as an unlabelled image. Adding role="img", aria-labelledby pointing to a <title>, and a <desc> for complex diagrams ensures SVG is usable by people relying on assistive technology and passes WCAG 2.1 criteria for non-text content.
What is an SVG viewBox and why does it need to be calculated?+
The viewBox attribute defines the internal coordinate system of an SVG — the region of the SVG canvas that gets mapped to the element's rendered dimensions. If it is missing or mismatched, icons appear clipped, scaled incorrectly, or surrounded by excess whitespace. The viewBox Calculator computes the correct values from content dimensions and desired padding, removing the guesswork.
What is the difference between SVG Crop and the viewBox Calculator?+
SVG Crop analyses the actual bounding box of the rendered content and trims the viewBox to match — it removes excess whitespace that crept in during export from Figma, Illustrator, or Inkscape. The viewBox Calculator computes a viewBox from dimensions you specify — useful when building SVGs programmatically or when you know the intended coordinate space. Crop is reactive; Calculator is prescriptive.