[soulofmischief]

> How do you feel about the coupling of "text-sized icons" to the size of text?

You got me there. :)

This is one place where I break "convention", but only because I view icons as glyphs. So maybe the REM rule can be generalized to glyphs and not text. I typically just set icons to be 1rem. Any other size I typically specify in pixels however, as the coupling for me only makes sense as long as the glyph is glyph-sized.

> Does an icon next to a label make the icon's size font-related in your view?

Yeah, if it's an inline glyph. If the icon and label are vertically stacked however, I'm more inclined to use pixels.