Re:Clarity Icons: open source icons
by zimpenfish on Friday August 25, 2017 @09:36AM
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Icon fonts don't degrade gracefully when someone (ie me) disables "let websites use their own fonts". Either you get meaningless letters or those little unicode squares - neither of which are actually useful, of course.
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Additionally, icon fonts rely on the PUA to render their glyphs. Given the emoji explosion over the past several years, that PUA is getting harder and harder to assign glyphs to.
I can't be the only one that's visited a site on my phone and found emojis where an icon font glyph was meant to be.
See probably the most famous example: https://www.etsy.com/teams/7720/bugs/discuss/14559563/