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by sunseb 2801 days ago
I think it's an issue with SVG icons (this format doesn't support fractional scaling, but TTF fonts do).
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quantummkv 2801 days ago
The whole point of svg and (vector graphics) is that you can scale them to whatever you want.
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sunseb 2801 days ago
If you do fractional scaling on a svg image, pixels will not align to the pixel grid and the image will look blury. You won't notice that on big svg images, but tiny ui icons will definitely look blurry.

There was even a (never implemented) proposal to allow svg files to handle this problem.

https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Proposals/SVG_hintin...

That's why svg icons are often designed using a 24x24 pixel grid, so you can scale them at 48X48 (x2), 72x72 (x3), 96x96 (x4) and they remain pixel perfect and crisp at those sizes.

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int_19h 2801 days ago
It's still better than scaling bitmaps, so it's weird to single out SVG as the culprit. It makes things better in general, not worse.
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baybal2 2801 days ago
>I think it's an issue with SVG icons

How so??? SVG is a vector format

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