Re:Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers
by antod on Sunday October 04, 2015 @03:48AM
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> And what's the point of sticking a handful of icons into a downloadable font rather than just downloading a few images?
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.
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.