I use things like this and FontAwesome etc. a bunch, and they no doubt solve a real problem. But I also sort of wish that the problem were solved in a way that

I use things like this and FontAwesome etc. a bunch, and they no doubt solve a real problem. But I also sort of wish that the problem were solved in a way that does not involve stuffing things that are not even remotely text into a font. It seems like there should be a generic way to say "put image X (SVG, PNG, whatever) on the screen here, as if it were a glyph, and also do scaling and linebreaks and alignment properly, oh and colors and so on". I expect this already exists somewhere deep inside CSS - does anyone know the story?