Dear Philipp,
On 8 March 2013 12:06, Philipp Kammerer philipp@p3k-design.de wrote:
I played around with the font a little bit and my conclusion is: Rendering pixel fonts at such a low resolution is just a pain.
It is possible that the original icon uses a vector font because the letters "PDF" seem to scale better with that one.
I tried using the svgs instead and they work significantly better than the pngs. They just look sharper, regardless of how much I try to align the characters to the grid.
The SVGs look very good. My personal favourite is still 48x48, and it also scales very well for me at 32x32 except there is no white margin on the right-hand side of the text at that resolution. The text is still useful so I will personally stick with 48-SVG for 32 for time being. For lower resolutions I used the other SVGs you provided and I love them.
However, I think we should show them off on screenshots from a file manager – they do not look as impressive in the browser where rest of the page is white.
Can you write a short installation script and add it to the packages? The theme can be reloaded by calling "xdg-icon-resource forceupdate". A LICENCE file licensing them either under CC0 or releasing them into public domain would also be immensely useful.
Unless Hannes objects, we should add them to the PDFreaders.org graphics section and write to the developers of some free readers asking them whether they would be interested in distributing the icons.
Thank you.
Cheers,