These icons have been converted from EPS pages found at their respective
language UNRIC sites [1, 2, 3].
Since SVG icons are smaller and can be compressed, users browsing the
page in these languages will have to download way less data for the SDG
icons than when using PNGs. Users browsing the web in Italian will have
to download about 70KB for the SDG icons instead of the 575KB. Users
browsing the page in Greek will have to download about 75KB for the SDG
icons instead of 720KB. And users browsing the web in Dutch will have to
download about 115KB for the SDG icons instead of 230KB.
[1] https://unric.org/it/agenda-2030/
[2] https://unric.org/el/17-στοχοι-βιωσιμησ-αναπτυξησ/
[3] https://unric.org/nl/duurzame-ontwikkelingsdoelstellingen/
Based on an EPS file downloaded from The Global Goals page [1].
We didn't have Indonesian SDG icons in any format.
[1] https://www.globalgoals.org/resources
Based on an EPS file downloaded from The Global Goals page [1].
Although in that page there are icons for other languages we support and
that we've only got in PNG format, the Spanish ones are the only ones
which are similar to the official PNG ones provided by the UN or
UN-related organizations like UNRIC. Icons in other languages (like
Chinese, French or Russian) are not that similar to the official PNG
icons and their quality is (in my humble opinion) lower.
Since SVG icons are smaller and can be compressed, users browsing the
page in Spanish will have to download about 80KB for the SDG icons,
instead of the 240KB they needed to download when using PNGs.
[1] https://www.globalgoals.org/resources
These icons have been downloaded from The Global Goals page [1]. English
is the official language of this page and the only one containing all
the information.
Since SVG icons are smaller and can be compressed, users browsing the
page in English will have to download about 45KB for the SDG icons,
instead of the 250KB they needed to download when using PNGs.
[1] https://globalgoals.org
The objective of this change is to reduce the size of the images to improve the
experience in slow connections, poor coverage situations or data limits so common in
mobile devices.
Downloaded from: https://unric.org/en/sdgs-in-your-language/
Only languages enabled by default in CONSUL have been downloaded:
Danish, German, Greek, Italian, Dutch and Swedish.
Note that, unlike the icons for the 6 official UN languages, these icons
vary in size and quality. They've also been converted from JPEG files.
Note we're adding the icons in English on both the `sdg/en/` folder and
the `sdg/default/` folder. The latter stores the default icons when the
desired language does not have a fallback with an icon folder.
Also note we need to explicitely add the images to the asset pipeline
because they've been added to the `vendor/` folder; for some reason,
everything works properly without adding them to the asset pipeline if
we use the `app/` folder instead.
