SVGs supports fractional scaling better and can be sharper than icons given proper rendering, though I have seen cases, such as with the LO icons, where the rendering was super blurry for some reason.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
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This is not a proposal to stop using SVG, it's just a fun re-imagination of Gnome if we all still used low resolution CRT displays.