I don't understand... Isn't a better (neater?) solution simply to design the logo in Inkscape and then convert the font to a path? I did a quick test - font on

I don't understand... Isn't a better (neater?) solution simply to design the logo in Inkscape and then convert the font to a path? I did a quick test - font only, without the graphical elements - and the resulting SVG came to 64KB, significantly less than the 120KB version in the article.