![]() ![]() If you are like me and not great at drawing with your mouse, it may be helpful to sketch out the text or shape you are trying to animate first. For this guide, I’ll be using Adobe Illustrator but if you don’t have access to Illustrator a good free substitute would be Inkscape. Creating an SVG imageįirst off, you will need a vector graphics editor capable of exporting SVG files. The resulting Tic Tac Toe project is here if you are interested. I ended up coming across a library called Vivus.js which can be used with a vector image editing tool like Inkscape or Illustrator to achieve the effect relatively easily. It was surprising how hard it was to find an easy way to accomplish this. I thought it would be cool to have the X’s and O’s animate in like handwriting. One of the first projects for a web development boot camp I’m currently taking was to make a simple Tic Tac Toe game. For a preview of what this will look like check out the Codepen at the bottom of the article. ![]() It will go over how to create an SVG image in Adobe Illustrator, how to add the image into HTML markup, how to add Vivus.js to a project, and how to use Vivus to animate in the SVG image. This guide will walk you through how to simulate handwritten text using an SVG image and the Vivus.js library.
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