How do YOU make beautiful plugin gui's?

I do not use any images anymore and also try to avoid svg’s where ever possible.

I started to code the UI components. Following UI uses only the paint method and the JUCE graphics operations:


another one:

I miss some blending and gradient options to make photo realistic UI’s, but i’m happy with the result. And scaling works great!

p.s. The fonts in Juce is the main weak point in my optinion, but i think it’s not an issue anymore on retina displays.

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