Not as such, no. The stroke in SVG has either a round or square end, but no arbitrary shape. Calligraphic strokes are usually represented by a filled path, whic

Not as such, no. The stroke in SVG has either a round or square end, but no arbitrary shape. Calligraphic strokes are usually represented by a filled path, which you cannot animate that way. SVG 2 also doesn't provide anything in that way. It's probably too much to ask to push path rendering with shaped brushes onto the renderer implementation when authoring tools can just as well create a filled path. You might be able to achieve something like that with a filter, which could then rely on the underlying path being animated, but I'm not sure where to begin in that case, or whether it's possible.