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Original Post: Kirill Grouchnikov has released the Substance Look-and-Feel 3.3.
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Kirill Grouchnikov has released the Substance Look-and-Feel 3.3. This release adds support for resolution independent themes for high-DPI displays. (Think 120, 144, 200 dots-per-inch or higher.) This is a very good idea, that designers need to pay a lot more attention to going forward. I've been using a 110 dpi monitor since 1999, some laptops are already at 120 dpi, and medical displays are now crossing 200 dpi. A simple linear conversion from inches to pixels is no longer an acceptable compromise. (Across platforms, it never really was because Macs used 72 dpi and Windows 96 dpi.) More...
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