Re: High-res Customize icons

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 23/04/2020 10.11, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Stefan Kangas <address@hidden> writes:
>> Thinking about this a bit more, why did they choose to package the
>> icons up as ttf fonts instead of just including them as image files?
>> Is there any benefit to doing it that way?
> 
> I just realized that his will allow you to change the color of the
> icons.  Duh.  So that's a pretty nice idea, I guess.

More importantly, images currently don't work nearly as nicely as icon fonts 
(you can change the color of images too, but transparency doesn't work well, 
etc.). As Juri wrote recently:

On 22/04/2020 17.12, Juri Linkov wrote:
> This is why the tab-bar moved from Unicode characters to images,
> but another attempt to use SVG failed as was demonstrated in
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-09/msg00414.html