[amelius]

> An SVG is scalable

But fonts have hinting, so they look nice at low sizes and low resolutions. This is something that SVG is still missing.

[iza]

GitHub recently switched to SVG and claimed the opposite: https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg

Was their font just poorly designed?

[amelius]

That could be the case. Also, it may depend on the particular browser they used.