# Let it snow!

DevFeed: [Let it snow!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/let-it-snow-15746.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/let-it-snow>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2013-12-19T17:05:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Compression](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compression.md>), [quantization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/quantization.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [HTML5](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html5.md>)

Tags: [animation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/animation.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [html5](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html5.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [profiling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/profiling.md>), [quantization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/quantization.md>), [render](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/render.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>)

## AI overview

Square Cash engineers describe how they created festive animated GIF email headers, using Java to render snowflakes and optimizing color palettes, frame counts, image quality, file size, and playback speed.

## Source excerpt

Square Cash makes gift giving a little more festive.