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The icons look great! The font rendering engine is still the cheapest and most convenient way for having small scalable graphics. Note that this trick is as ol

by ot 15y ago

The icons look great! The font rendering engine is still the cheapest and most convenient way for having small scalable graphics. Note that this trick is as old as Windows 3.1, as Raymond Chen points out in his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/16/10256947.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/16/10256... (The blog name "Old New Thing" is spot-on as always :) )

kjhughes 15y ago
And character set graphics (code page 437 from IBM PC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437, PETSCII from Commodore PET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII, etc) predates the Windows technique, albeit without scaling.