[ziml77]

This is what annoyed me the first time I saw vector icons used in Linux desktop environments. I appreciate the attempt at making something that scales to any size, but in practice you need to custom design the smallest versions of an icon.

Even at the larger sizes, a vector won't always look great. If the renderer doesn't fudge vector edges to snap to pixel edges, you'll end up with blurry edges instead of clean, sharp ones.

[flowerbeater]

> Even at the larger sizes, a vector won't always look great. If the renderer doesn't fudge vector edges to snap to pixel edges, you'll end up with blurry edges instead of clean, sharp ones.

Do you have an example? Text is essentially "vector" these days, and I've never heard of anyone complaining that text rendered on a modern screen has blurry edges. The blurriness of some text is often "cleartype" or whatever tricks are being used to make it look better on low-dpi screens, which end up making it worse on modern displays.

[layer8]

Fonts have hinting to align to pixels, which vector icons don’t.