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Illustrations take over the web

Illustrations take over the web

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Illustrations take over the web

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- For many years, if you wanted to include illustrations on your website or in other marketing materials, you had two choices. One, you could use the incredibly cheesy clip art, that came with Microsoft Office among other sources or two, you hired an artist to make custom illustrations for you. With a bad choice and an expensive choice. Marketing teams used stock photography for years to enhance their sites, ignoring illustrations as an option, for website design elements. However, in recent years, we've seen several changes happen with illustrations. One, illustrations may be displayed directly on the web as an SVG file or scalable vector graphic. This file type is unique to illustrations and line art, and is based on math. The file size stays the same, no matter how big or small the illustration displays, on the site. This means that marketing can get the giant graphics that they crave with the tiny file size…

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