Great article Jon. This technique has been brilliant for us as it’s drastically simplified the preparation and delivery of image assets on a lot of our mobile focused apps, where that really matters.
There has been suggestions to map the various glyphs to corresponding unicode characters (in Pictos case), which I think would greatly aid the accessibility issues. I would certainly adopt this approach in a bespoke typeface.
Chris Garrett
Great article Jon. This technique has been brilliant for us as it’s drastically simplified the preparation and delivery of image assets on a lot of our mobile focused apps, where that really matters.
There has been suggestions to map the various glyphs to corresponding unicode characters (in Pictos case), which I think would greatly aid the accessibility issues. I would certainly adopt this approach in a bespoke typeface.