Playbit uses a resolution independent UI and we are thinking about how to represent UI graphics (think: icons) for the computer.
A key challenge with truly resolution-independent graphics is how to maintain sharpness (pixel alignment) where necessary (like a border or ruler) while at the same time keep the general shape & identity of a graphic.
Is there a vector image format out there that fits the bill? Ideally we would use an existing format rather than inventing our own.
@rsms My immediate thought regarding the last bullet point about "no pre-processing needed for GPU rendering" is that this seems like a strong constraint compared to existing formats. Pre-tesselation would go against the resolution independence but you could consider constraining the shape components, e.g. generalized trapezoidal components meaning that each shape component is bounded by a specified left path segment and a right path segment?
IMO you can't have both true resolution independence and pixel perfection. You have to pick one or the other. The closest you can get is by drawing your icons on the smallest grid possible, and then making sure you only scale them at integer factors.
You can try somehow nudging outlines into the grid automatically upon rendering, but I'm 200% sure this will produce nasty results in about a zillion edge cases.
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Cyrillic readers, do these capital letters of Inter look good? Are there any of these which really should be localized? (For example, Bulgarian has a lot or variation compared to Russian, from what I've gathered.)
(Comparing to Helvetica since it's so common to see)
When it comes to Russian, I find the capitals of К and Ж quite weird, as I am not used to them having such present horizontal bars; it's not wrong, though.
I can't really speak on behalf of other languages, sadly. However, I want to point out that the Serbian Dje (Ђ) seems to have its "tail" descend under the baseline; is that a common thing to do? All I've seen were the versions where it sits atop the baseline (e.g. Helvetica)
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