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I think it's because the words for bold and italic change depending on the
language. If you just use a character and show the effect, it tells the
user what it does without having to refer to a specific word.

~ Maggie

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Sabin Densmore <sabin@onegecko.com> wrote:

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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