linebender / linebender/resvg

Allow setting the default `currentColor`

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Description

Most web icons, including [tailwindlabs/heroicons](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/heroicons) allows to set icon color with css font color on the page/block. This is done with `stroke="currentColor"` on the svg icon. For now resvg allows to set background color with `--background COLOR` argument, it would be really nice to have an option to do the same for "foreground" color. This way it would be possible to render icons for dark backgrounds.

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Start by tracing how resvg handles the existing `--background COLOR` option and how SVG `stroke="currentColor"` is represented during rendering. Add an equivalent foreground-color option and verify that icons using `currentColor` render with the requested color, including on dark backgrounds.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
computer-graphics
Issue type
Feature
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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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