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Twitter SVG Logo

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Mmbostock
Last edited Feb 9, 2016
Created on Jul 12, 2012

This example renders the Twitter logo as a single SVG path built entirely from elliptical arc segments, rather than the more common cubic Bézier curves. The path data specifies each curve using SVG’s `A` command with explicit radii and rotation. The author derived the arc geometry from circle-circle intersection math, referencing Upperdog Interactive’s CSS-based logo as a visual guide. The result is a clean, mathematically precise vector approximation of the logo, shown in a light blue fill on a plain background.

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Using Upperdog Interactive’s CSS Twitter logo as reference, and I wrote some circle-circle intersection code (a.k.a. math) to specify the Twitter logo as sequence of elliptical arc segments. There are other versions of the Twitter logo in SVG, but as best I can tell, they use cubic Béziers. I found it mathematically unsettling to use Béziers when circular arcs would suffice.

gpl-3.0 Licensed

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