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Re:Round Rects Are Everywhere by EGreg on Monday June 24, 2024 @07:26PM (#40782277)
Bill Atkinson wasn’t aware of that feature.

Also, Susan Kare didn’t know about vector graphics. That’s why all her icons ended up pixelated! But it was… quite iconic at the time.

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Re:Round Rects Are Everywhere by Stratoscope on Monday June 24, 2024 @09:27PM (#40783287)
Whatever Susan Kare knew about vector graphics, that's not why the icons were pixelated.

It was because she had only two colors to work with, black and white, and only two icon sizes, 16x16 and 32x32.

Steve Jobs and Bill Atkinson only got 32x32 B&W icons for their own portraits:

https://www.folklore.org/Steve,_Icon.html

> Icons were only 32 by 32 black or white pixels, 1024 dots in total

Susan posted more examples here:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/81132387/Macintosh-icons

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Re:Round Rects Are Everywhere by michaeljsmith on Monday June 24, 2024 @11:13PM (#40784031)
(I think that was the joke)
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Re:Round Rects Are Everywhere by Stratoscope on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @03:48AM (#40797377)
Consider me duly and properly whooshed!

It was only when I later re-read the comment I replied to, with the part about Bill Atkinson not knowing about the border-radius feature in CSS, that I realized what was going on.

At least I hope my note about the pixelated icons may have been of interest to a few.

Thanks for keeping me on my toes!

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