Icons of all main payment operators and methods

Re:Icons of all main payment operators and methods by Messiah_ on Friday April 24, 2015 @10:57AM (#9433749)

What is the advantage of using this over pngs?

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Re:Icons of all main payment operators and methods by Brajeshwar on Friday April 24, 2015 @11:42AM (#9434081)

PNG is raster and so they do not scale on various sizes (various devices and their screen-sizes), not to mention of the retina display that one needs to take care.

SVGs and/or Icon fonts are vector and scalable.

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Re:Icons of all main payment operators and methods by phragg on Friday April 24, 2015 @05:08PM (#9436027)

One extremely useful benefit is that you can change the text-size, color, etc just as you would with CSS on these fonts.

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Re:Icons of all main payment operators and methods by bdat on Friday April 24, 2015 @11:28AM (#9433991)

They will scale well with high ppi screens.

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Re:Icons of all main payment operators and methods by loopbit on Friday April 24, 2015 @11:44AM (#9434096)

To be honest, the same can be said for svg images without the need to load a css file (4KB minified) plus a font file (55-230KB).

Specially taking into account that most places will use only a few of these icons.

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Re:Icons of all main payment operators and methods by bdat on Friday April 24, 2015 @12:56PM (#9434528)

I was only explaining the advantage over png. Great point about the use-case though. The average site is probably not going to offer 95 payment options/operators; a specialized svg library might be more appropriate.

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Re:Icons of all main payment operators and methods by subsection1h on Friday April 24, 2015 @01:15PM (#9434657)

An icon font generator/subsetting tool can produce a font file that includes only the icons that are needed.

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