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by gherkin0
3908 days ago
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Me too. I blocked web fonts in Firefox because a lot of them rendered text like trash when I had font anti-aliasing/sub-pixel rendering disabled (I prefer blocky-crispness to blurry-smoothness). Those stupid icon fonts have been the collateral damage. And what's the point of sticking a handful of icons into a downloadable font rather than just downloading a few images? |
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Some reasons:
* They are scalable vector images without the download bloat and processing load of rendering them with SVG.
* Raster icons need to closely match the screen DPI or they look awful - eg Retina displays made raster icons look like blocky pixellated afterthoughts.
* They inherit colors, sizes etc from CSS the same way as their surrounding elements.