ector Icon tips from Inkscape developer Silsor
Silsor: The problem with designing vector icons is that unless you design them just so, the pixel boundaries don’t line up quite right with the vector objects and you get blur.
Theobroma: so how do you “design them just so”? Any suggestions?
Silsor: You set your document to use the “px” unit of measurement, turn on a pixel grid, and use grid snapping. You also make sure that you don’t use wide strokes, since in SVG graphics, strokes are exactly centered on the boundary of an object. It’s better to either snap the outer edge of the stroke itself to the grid, or else use an outer object and an inner object but with no stroke, only fill.
Cmarqu: Maybe there should be a template for creating icons which has all of these set…
Silsor: There already are :)
Theobroma: Where?
Silsor: There are templates for 16px, 32px, 48px and 64px icons with the grid already set up. [They are] just under “New” in the File menu.
Last Updated ( Monday, 27 June 2005 )
