This tutorial aims to explain the internals of SVG and is packed with technical details. If you just want to draw beautiful images, you might find more useful resources at Inkscape's documentation page. Another good introduction to SVG is provided by the W3C's SVG Primer. Also check out this advent calendar-themed SVG Tutorial that walks you through coding 25 festive SVGs.

Chapters

• Introduction
• Getting started
• Positions
• Basic shapes
• Paths
• Fills and strokes
• Gradients
• Patterns
• Texts
• Basic transformations
• Clipping and masking
• Other content in SVG
• Filter effects
• Using fonts
• SVG image element
• Tools for SVG
• SVG and CSS