Everything is going to vector, icon fonts, SVG, and the like.
Here’s what needs to change (and quickly) to accomodate our extra pixel friends.ĭesigning icons, buttons, and other graphical elements in Photoshop is a thing of the past. The problem is only going to get worse, because we haven’t yet reached the limits of human vision. Even on my iPad 2, which has a fairly hi-res display, the type looks pixelated. I pop open my old (2008) Macbook Pro and I squint at the blurry text. Let me tell you, once you’ve been staring at this thing for a few days, non-Retina screens are almost unreadable. You may have seen a Retina display in the Apple store, or on your iPhone, and maybe you think it looks pretty good. It’s like watching a non-HD channel on a very good HD TV. Everything that’s Retina compatible is amazingly crisp, but everything that’s not looks even worse than it did before. The problem with the Retina display is similar to that of an HD TV several years ago. It won’t be long before other manufacturers release similar displays, and websites are going to have to adapt quickly. Not just Apple’s display, but ultra high resolution displays in general. I just got a Retina Macbook Pro, and only a few days in it’s clear that this display is the future.
