Sometimes you just need to see what an SVG looks like — a client sent you a file, a designer shared a link, or you're checking whether a mystery .svg in your repo is what you think it is. The Rankato SVG Viewer is the fastest way: drop the file (or paste the source), pick a background, and you see it. Zoom, pan, and inspect the markup in a code panel to check viewBox, embedded scripts, or license comments. No install, no upload, nothing lost.
Backgrounds — see the SVG in context
Icons and logos are designed against specific backgrounds. Toggle between transparent (with checkerboard indication), white (default UI background), black (dark UI background), and a custom color picker to see how your SVG performs in each context. Semi-transparent fills that look great on white can disappear on white-alpha; hairline strokes that look elegant on black may be invisible on white. Test everything before you ship.
Zoom and pan
Mouse wheel to zoom, space+drag to pan, F to fit-to-viewport, 1 to reset to 100%. Zoom range is 10% to 3200% — plenty to inspect anti-aliasing behavior at extreme scales or to check the overall composition at a distance.
Source inspection
The bottom panel shows the raw SVG source with syntax highlighting. Search inside the source with Ctrl+F, click any tag to highlight the corresponding element in the preview, and hover the code to see element bounding boxes appear on the canvas. Great for figuring out why a specific element is where it is.
Metadata and viewBox
The right panel shows a summary card: file size, intrinsic width/height, viewBox, number of paths/rectangles/circles/text elements, embedded resources (external images or fonts), scripts (with a warning if present), and any XML comments. This is the fastest way to answer questions like 'why is this SVG 500 KB' or 'does this contain a script.'
Export options
Export the SVG in a few forms without leaving the viewer: Rasterize hands off to SVG-to-PNG at your current zoom level; Minified copy outputs a whitespace-stripped version; Data URI produces a paste-ready inline URI. Copy any of them without downloading.