Exporting your icons

For now, all the icons you designed while reading this chapter are in one file. This made it easier for you to duplicate and reuse the elements, and also experiment with them if needed. All of the icons in one .svg file are neat and easy to use during the design process, but of course, not suitable for the final goal of the icons.

In this book, the final goal is to use the icons as decorative and descriptive elements in the website design you will create in Chapter 6, Flexible Website Layout Design for Desktop and Mobile with Inkscape. To be precise, to use them in that project, you do not need to export the icons yet.

But we cannot wrap up a chapter about vector icon design without talking about exporting those icons in their final formats either. There are plenty of cases when a designer needs to export icons in a fast and reliable way, and there are easy solutions for these in Inkscape.

The two main formats to export your icons (or any images created...