diff --git a/dist/tools/whitespacecheck/ignore_list.txt b/dist/tools/whitespacecheck/ignore_list.txt
index c64537e0db..f6305090c0 100644
--- a/dist/tools/whitespacecheck/ignore_list.txt
+++ b/dist/tools/whitespacecheck/ignore_list.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 */vendor/*
 dist/tools/fixdep/fixdep.c
+*.svg