svgcleaner VS specification

I'm not sure, but it seems svgcleaner can remove unused and invisible graphical elements[1]. I don't know if TinyVG preserves them. but if it does, it's not a fair comparison.

Did you try converting svgcleaner processed SVG to a TVG?

[1] https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner

oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner — optimizing images

One of the new features of Godot 4 is svg with embeds like svg, jpg and png. Also if you have svg fonts, you can clean it with https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner and it may import.

svgcleaner is designed for standalone SVG files, and will fail on or butcher a significant fraction of inline SVG icons and the likes because it can’t cope with currentColor.

There's also SVG Cleaner which has some compelling benefits over SVGO.

svgcleaner is a CLI (command line) tool which cleans up vector files. Often, vector files will have a lot of extra “stuff” in them that aren’t needed for the presentation side of things, so this helps to reduce the file size. I store both the original vector of the icon, and a cleaned version.

TinyVG follows the similar goals: an alternative to SVG with a specification which trades off features for simplicity. https://tinyvg.tech/

I wholehearedly agree with your point on information blackholes but I think the reason some people hate SVG is that they've had had to advanced things with or had to work with the spec and implement something around it. I haven't done so myself but I can tell pain when I read it.

Here is a mostly compatible alternative: https://tinyvg.tech/

I created a library to parse TinyVG files

After taking an interest in TinyVG I got to wondering if there is a similar idea just applied to conforming SVG files. Basically a format that includes nothing but basic paths, colors, gradients and a few shapes to make the implementation relatively easy to create.

If so, can you please make an issue in the specification repo: https://github.com/TinyVG/specification/