It's 28 lines because it's formatted to have every attribute on a different line. I'd put the <svg> tag and all its attributes on a line, the entirety of the p

It's 28 lines because it's formatted to have every attribute on a different line. I'd put the <svg> tag and all its attributes on a line, the entirety of the path on a single line, and then with the closing </svg> tag it's reduced to 3 lines. This is how I do embedded SVGs: https://imgur.com/a/zVVEVps https://imgur.com/a/zVVEVps Note your example also looks way worse because of line wrap