Re: High-res Customize icons

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <address@hidden> writes:

>> Thinking about this a bit more, why did they choose to package the
>> icons up as ttf fonts instead of just including them as image files?
>> Is there any benefit to doing it that way?
>
> I just realized that his will allow you to change the color of the
> icons.  Duh.  So that's a pretty nice idea, I guess.

Fonts are vectors graphics (well, these are), so you can scale them
without them turning blocky/smudgy.  I think that's the most important
reason for using fonts instead of images.

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