“Design has changed a lot in the last 9 years to the point where I don’t know if a lot of this still applies.”
I think it still applies. In my experience, as we’ve gone far away from skeuomorphic design (hey, it’s 2011 in the title, we can use that word), having those nice razor sharp minimalistic icons at 20pt/dp or smaller sizes means you do want to draw them with care. You can notice the slop when something doesn’t fall on a nice integer position.
Especially as we still are not in a fully HiDPI world. I came across this the other day when I was trying to create an icon for a 5×5 matrix. Looked great on my MacBook Pro screen. And then I dragged it to my external display that I keep for testing. And oh. Yikes. I needed to tighten things up.
I think it still applies. In my experience, as we’ve gone far away from skeuomorphic design (hey, it’s 2011 in the title, we can use that word), having those nice razor sharp minimalistic icons at 20pt/dp or smaller sizes means you do want to draw them with care. You can notice the slop when something doesn’t fall on a nice integer position.
Especially as we still are not in a fully HiDPI world. I came across this the other day when I was trying to create an icon for a 5×5 matrix. Looked great on my MacBook Pro screen. And then I dragged it to my external display that I keep for testing. And oh. Yikes. I needed to tighten things up.