Creating SVGs with popular image editing packages and services
While SVGs can be opened, edited, and written in a text editor, there are plenty of applications offering a graphical user interface (GUI) that make authoring complex SVG graphics easier if you come from a graphics editing background. Perhaps the most obvious choice is Adobe's Illustrator (PC/Mac). However, it is expensive for casual users so my own preference is Bohemian Coding's Sketch (Mac only: http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/). That itself isn't cheap (currently at $99), but it's still the option I would recommend if you use a Mac.
If you use Windows/Linux or are looking for a cheaper option, consider the free and open-source, Inkscape (https://inkscape.org/en/). It's by no means ...
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