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“Seriously, Don’t Use Icon Fonts”

November 24, 2015 by futtta

[…] we need to stop. It’s time to let icon fonts pass on to Hack Heaven, where they can frolic with table-based layouts, Bullet-Proof Rounded Corners and Scalable Inman Flash Replacements.

Read why (accessibility & reliability) and what to use instead (SVG) on the Cloud Four blog.

Categories Internet, lang:en, performance, Web development Tags emoji, hack, icon fonts, svg Leave a comment

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