<story><title>Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem</title><url>https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/fonts-are-still-a-helvetica-of-a-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evrimoztamur</author><text>With SVG support at a near-full coverage (and 99.99% for Canva&amp;#x27;s user base, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;caniuse.com&amp;#x2F;svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;caniuse.com&amp;#x2F;svg&lt;/a&gt;) you do wonder why we see less SVG for &lt;i&gt;graphics&lt;/i&gt; like this. It&amp;#x27;s literally easier to export, and no harder to import than PNGs.</text></item><item><author>gpjanik</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s so funny this article features a timeline graphic that&amp;#x27;s a PNG with a lot of text on it. On Firefox + M1 Macbook, the first image is not up to scale for high resolution screens and each pixel is blurry, rendering the font hardly readable. Then the article continues with some SVG code... oops?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>From personal experience and having been burned by odd SVG bugs too many times over the years, a dumb image is simple, it works and you know that it works. I only reach for SVG when I need to do something that other formats cannot.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem</title><url>https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/fonts-are-still-a-helvetica-of-a-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evrimoztamur</author><text>With SVG support at a near-full coverage (and 99.99% for Canva&amp;#x27;s user base, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;caniuse.com&amp;#x2F;svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;caniuse.com&amp;#x2F;svg&lt;/a&gt;) you do wonder why we see less SVG for &lt;i&gt;graphics&lt;/i&gt; like this. It&amp;#x27;s literally easier to export, and no harder to import than PNGs.</text></item><item><author>gpjanik</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s so funny this article features a timeline graphic that&amp;#x27;s a PNG with a lot of text on it. On Firefox + M1 Macbook, the first image is not up to scale for high resolution screens and each pixel is blurry, rendering the font hardly readable. Then the article continues with some SVG code... oops?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifthrasiir</author><text>Kinda because it&amp;#x27;s harder to make a good SVG editor, and also a clean SVG is substantially harder to export and thus SVG is only seen as an authoring format.</text></comment>