diff --git a/internal/render/scene_canvas.go b/internal/render/scene_canvas.go
index 5a1c004..28517f3 100644
--- a/internal/render/scene_canvas.go
+++ b/internal/render/scene_canvas.go
@@ -766,12 +766,29 @@ func (c *SceneCanvas) RenderSVG(svgXML []byte, bounds geometry.Rect, color widge
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Honor the clip, as every other draw method on this canvas does. Without
+	// it an icon with no pixels on screen still emits its whole document into
+	// the scene.
+	if !c.isVisible(bounds) {
+		return
+	}
+
 	// Parse SVG (Level 1 document cache).
 	doc := globalIconCache.getDoc(svgXML)
 	if doc == nil {
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Keep the document inside the box it was given. The emitted geometry is
+	// positioned by a transform built from those bounds but is not otherwise
+	// constrained by them, so a document whose contents reach past its own
+	// viewBox — or a stroke that widens past it — paints over whatever sits
+	// around the icon. Every other primitive here is bounded by construction;
+	// a whole SVG is not.
+	clip := scene.NewRectShape(bounds.Min.X, bounds.Min.Y, bounds.Width(), bounds.Height())
+	c.sc.PushClip(clip)
+	defer c.sc.PopClip()
+
 	// Vector path: emit SVG as scene geometry (paths + fills/strokes).
 	// Resolution-independent — rendered at actual display resolution by the
 	// GPU or CPU scene renderer. No bitmap pre-rasterization, no Level 2
diff --git a/internal/render/scene_canvas_svg_bounds_test.go b/internal/render/scene_canvas_svg_bounds_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac48a45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/render/scene_canvas_svg_bounds_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+package render
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/gogpu/gg/scene"
+	"github.com/gogpu/ui/geometry"
+	"github.com/gogpu/ui/widget"
+)
+
+// overflowingSVG draws a rectangle four times the size of its own viewBox.
+//
+// That is not a malformed document — an SVG may draw anywhere, and content
+// outside the viewBox is clipped by the viewport in every renderer that follows
+// the spec. Real icon sets depend on it: a stroke centered on the viewBox edge
+// puts half its width outside, so "bleeds by a pixel" is the common case and a
+// deliberate overflow is only the visible version of it.
+const overflowingSVG = `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 16 16">` +
+	`<rect x="0" y="0" width="64" height="64" fill="currentColor"/></svg>`
+
+// An SVG must paint only inside the bounds it is handed.
+//
+// The vector path positions the document with a transform built from those
+// bounds but does not otherwise constrain it, so anything the document draws
+// past its viewBox lands on whatever surrounds the icon. It goes unseen
+// wherever another widget paints afterwards and covers the spill — which is why
+// it surfaces on the last icon in a row, or one against the edge of a window.
+func TestSceneCanvasRenderSVGStaysInsideItsBounds(t *testing.T) {
+	globalIconCache.invalidateAll()
+	defer globalIconCache.invalidateAll()
+
+	sc := scene.NewScene()
+	c := NewSceneCanvas(sc, 400, 400)
+	defer c.Close()
+
+	box := geometry.NewRect(40, 40, 16, 16) // a 16x16 icon, as an app draws one
+	c.RenderSVG([]byte(overflowingSVG), box, widget.ColorBlack)
+
+	// Scene.Bounds() is the union of the shapes and does not narrow for a clip,
+	// so the emitted commands are what has to be checked: the document must be
+	// wrapped in one.
+	var clips int
+	for _, tag := range sc.Flatten().Tags() {
+		if tag == scene.TagBeginClip {
+			clips++
+		}
+	}
+	if clips == 0 {
+		t.Errorf("the SVG was emitted unbounded — %v of scene geometry with no clip around it, "+
+			"so a document drawing past its viewBox paints over whatever surrounds the icon "+
+			"(bounds given: %v)", sc.Bounds(), box)
+	}
+}
+
+// Every other draw method on this canvas culls against the current clip. An
+// icon with no pixels on screen should cost nothing, not emit its whole
+// document into the scene.
+func TestSceneCanvasRenderSVGHonorsTheClip(t *testing.T) {
+	globalIconCache.invalidateAll()
+	defer globalIconCache.invalidateAll()
+
+	sc := scene.NewScene()
+	c := NewSceneCanvas(sc, 400, 400)
+	defer c.Close()
+
+	c.PushClip(geometry.NewRect(0, 0, 20, 20))
+	defer c.PopClip()
+
+	before := sc.Version()
+	c.RenderSVG([]byte(overflowingSVG), geometry.NewRect(200, 200, 16, 16), widget.ColorBlack)
+	if sc.Version() != before {
+		t.Error("an icon entirely outside the clip still emitted scene commands")
+	}
+}