The Era of Symbol Fonts

Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by iconfinder on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @10:18AM (#5361929)

I still believe using fonts to show icons is a hack. When we have better support for SVG files in browsers I believe that will be the most popular way of displaying icons. Simply because icon fonts are harder to user and edit. With SVG files the icons are delivered in XML format that can easily be manipulated by eg. JS. The downside is of course the many server requests it will require - one per icon.

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Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by robin_reala on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @10:21AM (#5361954)

Not if you use fragment URLs: a single SVG with all your icons then reference icons.svg#telephone_icon or whatever. More info at http://www.broken-links.com/2012/08/14/better-svg-sprites-wi...

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Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by cbr on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @10:47AM (#5362131)

This is Firefox and IE10 only so far: http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-fragment

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Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by ygra on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @10:47AM (#5362127)

While the demo there works for me in IE (9 and 10) and FF it fails in Chrome. That's probably reason enough that you cannot really use it.

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Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by nachteilig on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @10:47AM (#5362129)

What's your toolchain for creating svgs? Seems like every time I look at doing this I still have to download some weird third party shareware to convert my photoshop stuff to SVG.

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Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by shawnphoffman on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @02:53PM (#5364087)

You could also use InkScape if you want a free alternative to Illustrator.

To me, using photoshop to design svgs is only going to cause you headaches.

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Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by sopooneo on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @12:18PM (#5362800)

You can save as SVG from Adobe Illustrator.

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