Re: [libreoffice-design] Bold and Italic icons

Just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason we're not using "B"
and "I" to indicate Bold and Italic? I don't care either way, but am
curious as to why.

For what it's worth, Thunderbird (what I'm using now) uses a capital
letter "A". It's just hard to tell the difference between an italic "A"
and a non-italic "A".

- sd

On 3/12/2012 7:39 AM, Kévin PEIGNOT wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Sorry to have been off so much time (I'm very busy these times).
>
> In my part, I prefer Uppercases ones, just because they seems me more
> beautiful : I don't think upper or lower are more or less confusing. So,
> for me, it's just a mater of feelings, that's all !
>
> Kévin
>
> 2012/3/11 Mirek M. <mazelm@gmail.com>
>
> > 2012/3/11 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos <fitoschido@gmail.com>
> >
> > > I'd prefer lowercase icons, because they're more recognizable in a
> > > glance as I already said in the wiki page. Three uppercase "A"s can be
> > > easily confused.
> > Lowercase As can be confused just as easily. As stated -- if we need the
> > bold icon to stand out more, I propose we simply make it a bit thicker.
> > Nobody seems to have had any problems with the current Tango icon set,
> > which uses uppercase letters.
> >
> > > The Humanity (and Gnome) icon themes included in Ubuntu use lowercase,
> > > you can check apps like Inkscape or Abiword to see that.
> > Oddly, Inkscape seems to use lowercase A only for the bold and italic
> > icons. Every other icon with text uses a capital A to symbolize it.
> >
> > > BTW, I don't quite understand how can uppercase or lowercase letters
> > > be more or less "inline with your design goals."
> > Uppercase icons are crisper, which is one of the design goals.
> >
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