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 ![W3C SVG Logo](https://www.w3.org/Icons/SVG/svg-logo-v.png)
 # SVG.NET[![NuGet version](https://badge.fury.io/nu/svg.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/nu/svg) [![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/vvvv/SVG.svg)](https://gitter.im/vvvv/SVG?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge) ![Testsuite](https://github.com/svg-net/SVG/workflows/Testsuite/badge.svg?branch=master) ![DocBuild](https://github.com/svg-net/SVG/workflows/DocBuild/badge.svg?branch=master)
 
-Public fork of the C# SVG rendering library on CodePlex. 
+SVG.NET is a C# library to read, write and render SVG 1.1 images in applications based on the .NET framework.
 
-This started out as a private fork by [vvvv](https://vvvv.org) with some minor modification to enable the writing of proper SVG strings.
-After almost two years of fixes and improvements the company decided to share the codebase with the public in order to improve it even further.
-In 2021, the repository has been transferred from the company organization `vvvv` to the new organization `svg-net` (e.g. SVG.NET). 
+It is compatible with platforms implementing .NET Standard 2.0 and works under Windows, Linux, and macOS
+(the latter two with some limitations with respect to rendering).
+
+SVG.NET is available as a NuGet package and can be referenced by any .NET application supporting .NET Standard 2.0.
+
+## Documentation
+For information on installation and usage of the library, and for release notes please check the [documentation pages](https://svg-net.github.io/SVG/).
+Note that the documentation is very rudimentory - any help to improve it is greatly appreciated!
 
 ## Contributing
 This project is in need of contributors.
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 Please feel free to fork the repository and open pull requests for any fix, improvement or feature you want to add.
 You may check the [contributing guide](https://github.com/svg-net/SVG/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information on how to do this. 
 
-## Documentation
-For information on installation and usage of the library, and for release notes please check the [documentation pages](https://svg-net.github.io/SVG/).
-Note that the documentation is incomplete - any help to improve it is greatly appreciated!
-
+## History
+This project is a public fork of the SVG.NET C# library originally created by Microsoft on (now defunct) CodePlex. 
+It started out as a private fork by [vvvv](https://vvvv.org) with some minor modification to enable the writing of proper SVG strings.
+After almost two years of fixes and improvements the company decided to share the codebase with the public in order to improve it even further.
+In 2021, the repository has been transferred from the company organization `vvvv` to the new organization `svg-net` (e.g. SVG.NET). 
 
 ## Projects using the library