Nov 30 2008 at 11:24am
How to search & replace colours in a vector graphic
Today I wanted to find and replace colours in a vector graphic. The greens weren’t quite what I wanted, but the image was full of gradients that I didn’t want to have to change by hand. Can any vector program search and replace colours? I wasn’t sure, but instead of searching around for one my husband helped me come up with this SVG solution:
Replace colours in a vector graphic
- Save your graphic as an SVG. You can use Inkscape, Illustrator, or pretty much any other vector program to do this.
- Make note of your “before” and “after” colours as hex values.
- Open the .svg file in a text editor. You’ll see some mark-up that looks much like HTML (that’s because SVG an XML specification).
- Search for your “before” values and replace with the “after”.
- Save.
That’s it! Now, if only Internet Explorer would support SVG so I didn’t have to export these as png’s…
