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Re:Should we stop using the Google font service and host on ... by SippinLean on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:50AM (#15654170)
Letters are not icons.

"Letters are things, not pictures of things." -- Eric Gill

Github did a great writeup on the perils of using fonts for icons. One reason was the one mentioned here, users overriding them with their own preferred fonts.

https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg

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