The nice thing about using Inkscape like that is you can easily loop it and generate a number of icon sizes. Since they'll be rendered at the size specified the

The nice thing about using Inkscape like that is you can easily loop it and generate a number of icon sizes. Since they'll be rendered at the size specified there's no scaling artifacts. An icon might look bad because it's too busy for a 16x16 square but at least your colors won't bleed too badly.