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by secoif 5150 days ago
If CSS and browsers weren't so broken and there was a convenient, semantic alternative, I'm sure github would have used that instead. Unfortunately icon fonts are one of the most convenient and compatible 'hacks' to render vector icons in the current climate.

In a perfect world you'd be right, or perhaps even in a world where IE hadn't held the entire Internet back 10 years.