Icon observations

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I’m in the middle of drawing some icons for a new Rhino V8 toolbar.

For a better understanding I want to learn from the Rhino icons.
I want to understand why some icons render good, and some not so good.
And what the best approach is.

Example:
Analyze_Geometric_continuity_of_2_curves.svg

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In this example the quality is not optimal even at the native 48px (view the screenshots at 100%).
In Rhino itself I see exactly the same.

The big picture reveals the reason.
As a test I aligned the several pieces to the grid using InkScape.

I think the quality improved for all sizes:

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Some not perfectly grid aligned icons:
AnnotationStyles.svg
Edge_Tools_Zoom_Naked_Next.svg
Edge_Tools_Zoom_Naked_Previous.svg
Lines_Line_Angled_from_midpoint.svg
PolygonCount.svg

Some precise ones:
Point_Edit.svg
Radius.svg
Scale_Scale_1D.svg
Select_Chain_Select_chain_with_G0_continuity.svg
Set_View_View_Turntable.svg

Means for my own icons that I should draw perfectly grid aligned icons.
The chances for a good rendering are better.

This also means the Rhino icons can be better with no major effort.
A large amount but not really difficult work.

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Thanks for finding this I logged it here.I’ll take a look.
Many of the svg files where automatically converted from PDF’s and I’ve already fixed many that had problems, but looks like I missed a few. If you find any other, just let me know and I’ll get them manually fixed.

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Can you please tell me which software did you use to get this preview?

I use inkscape, but i can find a way to see all sizes preview…

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I made this viewer myself for checking my icons.

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RH-78678 is fixed in Rhino 8 Service Release 4 Release Candidate

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The Cancel button looks a bit fuzzy.
I played a bit with it, this is what I got (to be seen at 100%):
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Cancel.zip (934 Bytes)

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I haven’t gotten to it yet. I’ll look into it once I get to the Main 1 Toolbar. Thanks for pointing it out!

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