Cloudinary SVG Placeholder

Dynamic SVG image placeholders, powered by Cloudinary & Potrace

Animated Outline

(Image from unsplash.com )

Try these images:

• Camera
• Surprised Cat
• Mountains

How it works

1. Loads the Potrace Lib (6KB min+gzip)
2. Starts loading the full res source image
3. Meanwhile...
4. 1. Grabs a low res thumbnail from Cloudinary (~5KB)
   2. Uses Potrace to generate an svg from the thumbnail
   3. Colours and fades the SVG in as a crisp, full-size placeholder
5. Once full res loaded, overlays the svg with a nice fadein transition

FAQs

• 🚫 No build step required!
• 🦉 The SVG is generated on the fly from the source image
• 🎒 It requires an extra network round trip (to fetch the thumb from Cloudinary)
• 🌈 You can pick any colour for the svg
• 💅 The SVG can be animated / styled however you want

Note: This demo artificially delays image loading by 1 second

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Created by @jesstelford