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Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by calinet6 on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @11:01AM (#5362228)
Yeah yeah, everyone should know about the perils of "Mystery Meat Navigation" from the 1996 book "Web Pages That Suck."

I'm sure that the icons were being used only as demonstration here, and that no one would actually do such a thing in this day and age.

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Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by Samuel_Michon on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @11:18AM (#5362350)
"no one would actually do such a thing in this day and age"

You'd think!

http://www.cardiffcontemporary.co.uk/content.asp (Do try the 'Accessibility' link)

Also: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/ (Keep scrolling...)

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Re:The Era of Symbol Fonts by tiredoffps on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @11:56AM (#5362610)
A lot of UI designers are doing this actually. They got the idea from using Facebook, Twitter logos with no labels. It doesn't work for icons that aren't commonly used.
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