Re: [libreoffice-design] Bold and Italic icons

Þann fim 15.mar 2012 03:55, skrifaði King Duck:
> 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

I've responded to a similar question before:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/design@global.libreoffice.org/msg03712.html>

Saw also that someone asked why not use lowercase letters. It's the
same principle; uppercase *A*, /A/ and _A_ should be recognisable as
*pictograms* representing the first letter of the Latin alphabet.
There is a reason why signs read "EXIT" and not "Exit" at
international airports - and also why those are progressively being
replaced by symbolised person/arrow/door.

Just thoughts.

Sveinn

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