I want to have a series of the same SVG file on a page with different colours. I\'m aware that the best method of getting the SVG into the page without bloating the code, an
See https://css-tricks.com/using-svg/, section “Using SVG as an ”:
[…] if you want the CSS stuff to work, you can't use an external stylesheet or
on the document, you need to use aelement inside the SVG file itself.
So it seems that it is not possible to style SVG elements inside an object from “outside” the object via CSS.