[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21019: Retina All the Things

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#21019: Retina All the Things
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 Reporter:  matt            |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.4.1
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  3.4
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |
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Comment (by empireoflight):

 Replying to [comment:30 helenyhou]:
 > Replying to [comment:26 empireoflight]:
 > > What about SVG for a future release? We'd lose some of the subtlety,
 but scaling wouldn't be an issue.
 >
 > Well, vector sources for assets certainly wouldn't hurt. :)
 >
 > I'm not sure I agree about using SVG at this moment. Given the level of
 detail, amount of color, and small sizes currently in use, I would be
 rather against leaving the end result of the scaling to the browser/OS,
 and of course then we have to worry about browser support. Good write-up
 about scaling issues and the need for hand hinting: http://www.pushing-
 pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-icons.html
 >
 > I'd say any further discussion about SVG usage would need to happen
 separately from this particular ticket since, at least to me, it implies a
 redraw and move to single-color/masked icons, which definitely should not
 happen for something scheduled for a maintenance release. I've seen
 discussion about making a custom icon font as well, somewhere in the
 WordPress world.
 Thanks Helen; I've read similar articles about the drawbacks of vector
 icons at low resolutions, but that's the first I've seen that one.
 Mainly the articles examine app icons, and not "action" icons, which can
 be much simpler, and I find that if you adhere/snap to a 16x16 pixel (8x8
 is even better) grid, SVGs are crisp at any "2" exponential size (x2,x4,
 etc but not x3 or x6, I wish I could explain better but I'm bad at math),
 without hinting. We should definitely revisit this in a new thread.

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