So I worked in points.Īnother oddity was the Glyphs vs Glyphs Mini (GM) inconstancies. The glyphs article points out that 1 ai point=1 glyphs unit. Do we really need all those complex numbers? As for the article, while trying to draw directly in Glyphs may be the best way, it’s gonna be tough to put aside my AI experience to learn a new method for drawing vectors until I have lots of time on my hands.Īfter trying all sorts of settings, I came to the conclusion that 20x20pixel icons should be designed in a 2000×2000 upm font. I also got nervous when scanning through the article at all the weird numbers: 2048, 2052, -17something. I decided 20×20 was a much easier canvas to work within, and as long as I left a pixel or two breathing room around the icons, they look great in a 16×16 space-not too big, but not leaving out important details in the name of absolute limits. It’s a good target, but it really does overly constrain design. For some reason, 16×16 is this imposing number that icon designers hold sacred. The tutorials I read through, and were really helpful, but as I said earlier, there are fundamental flaws with those workflows, at least as far as I’m able to incorporate them into mine. If I click/dragged an anchor over a pixel, then dragged it back, it would become sharp again.
I would copy/paste a shape from AP to AI, and my perfectly sharp edges would become fuzzy, even though the paths were exactly in the same place. That is, if you draw a rectangle with the edges half-way between the edges of a pixel, in Photoshop, you might get a different grey value than if you did that in Illustrator (AI). In Illustrator, vectors don’t anti-alias the same was as they do in Photoshop. The move to vector as the final source has been really weird and challenging. I can click on an anchor point and nudge it with the arrow keys, getting sub-pixel placement just right and having absolute control over the end product. Using a split window, I can zoom in on one window and see the actual size icon in the other. When I design icons in Photoshop (AP), the end goal is a png sprite. So I set out to find the perfect workflow for me, and here it is.
GLYPHS MINI DELETE GLYPG HOW TO
There are quite a few resources on how to do this, but most of the ones I’ve read, although I’m sure worked for some, went against a few of my own design principals.
This even with help from Mel Choyce, Joen Asmussen and the rest of the WP design team. The dashicons font created for the mp6 plugin has pretty much taken up all of my time the last few weeks.
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