Beware of using it for responsive icons. Popular browsers render SVG icons orders of magnitude slower than fonts, with the same vector content and scalability.

Beware of using it for responsive icons. Popular browsers render SVG icons orders of magnitude slower than fonts, with the same vector content and scalability. I recently had to convert an entire UI from SVG icons to fonts + bitmaps because the performance had gone down the drain, with just a few dozen different icons.