Icon fonts are quickly becoming a web design trend and there is a good reason for that. Creating icons with icon fonts gives designers the ability to manipulate the icons with CSS. The days of creating two different icon images for rollovers or effects are long gone. Now we can easily change color, size, and even animate the icons just as we would most other HTML elements.
Aside from giving designers and developers more control, icon fonts also offer many features that bitmap image icons simply do not. Because the icon is a font, it has the same properties as all other fonts. That means it is completely vector and scales perfectly no matter the size. This is extremely valuable considering the increasing popularity of the retina/Hi-DPI devices.
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Aside from giving designers and developers more control, icon fonts also offer many features that bitmap image icons simply do not. Because the icon is a font, it has the same properties as all other fonts. That means it is completely vector and scales perfectly no matter the size. This is extremely valuable considering the increasing popularity of the retina/Hi-DPI devices.
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