# SVG Placeholder Guide

Create a placeholder image as an SVG.

- Tool: https://ilham.dev/tools/svg-placeholder/
- Guide URL: https://ilham.dev/guides/svg-placeholder/
- Tool guides index: https://ilham.dev/guides/tools/
- Broader guide: Practical Image Tools (https://ilham.dev/guides/practical-image-tools/)

## What it does

Create a placeholder image as an SVG: pick the size, background and text colour and get a small vector file to drop into a layout while the real image is being produced.

## Use the tool

Open https://ilham.dev/tools/svg-placeholder/, add the input the tool asks for, run it, and check the output before using it elsewhere.

## Input and output

- Input: text.
- Output: text.
- Category: Web.

## Privacy and processing
Processing happens locally in your browser. This tool does not upload the input to ilham.dev.

## Questions

### Why SVG rather than a PNG?

It is a few hundred bytes, stays sharp at any size and can be edited in a text editor. There is no reason to ship a bitmap for a solid rectangle.