How do I properly resize an icon to maintain its appearance?

[Yurembo]

I downloaded an icon and opened it in Affinity Designer 2. I'm trying to resize it, but after enlarging, its appearance changes. Is it possible to preserve its original look so that resizing doesn't affect how it appears?

 

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[steday]

Hello

Before resizing, select your objet and clic Preserve Scale (Or whatever the English name is) on the stoke panel. It allow stroke width to be resize with the objet.

[NotMyFault]

There is a complication. Inside the layer stack you find an object called „mask“.

it is a pixel layer, which can’t be scaled in the same way like the other vector layers.

The layer will create a pixelated look, but the look changes when scaling to to chosen resample method.

I don’t know if this layer is really part of the artwork, or added (by accident) later.

Using a mask layer inside an vector document (intended for scaling) makes no sense.

 

[Yurembo]

34 minutes ago, steday said:

Hello

Before resizing, select your objet and clic Preserve Scale (Or whatever the English name is) on the stoke panel. It allow stroke width to be resize with the objet.

It works great, thanks!

[Yurembo]

5 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

There is a complication. Inside the layer stack you find an object called „mask“.

it is a pixel layer, which can’t be scaled in the same way like the other vector layers.

The layer will create a pixelated look, but the look changes when scaling to to chosen resample method.

I don’t know if this layer is really part of the artwork, or added (by accident) later.

Using a mask layer inside an vector document (intended for scaling) makes no sense.

 

I tried exporting a png file, and it looks good.

[NotMyFault]

19 minutes ago, Yurembo said:

I tried exporting a png file, and it looks good.

Great you are happy with the result.

Just for the pedantic people like me: based on the mask layer inside can see that the aspect ratio was altered, and the colors inside the object are slight different than original. And I learned that masks to vector objects behave different than masks to pixel layers.