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A comment on Trello uses an icon font and so can you. Parent comment

Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by angry-hacker on Thursday January 31, 2013 @06:53PM (#5148294)
And have you seen how ugly it looks with Chrome on Windows 7? Which should be the most popular browser + most popular OS. So I disagree with you and the blog author you should use fonts as icons.

They look ugly with Chrome + if fonts are not supported they don't show anything. At least if the image is missing you see X.

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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by WickyNilliams on Friday February 01, 2013 @06:04AM (#5150181)
It doesn't look great that's for sure, but you can still tell what the icons are i.e. it's good enough.

If you're designing things such that a missing icon causes the UI to be incomprehensible, you're probably designing it badly

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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by minimaxir on Thursday January 31, 2013 @09:57PM (#5148934)
Fair enough. It's a compromise.
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