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By "gold standard" I meant "default practice", at least in the web world. The web's most popular icon set - FontAwesome - even has "font" right in the name.
by brundolf 6y ago
By "gold standard" I meant "default practice", at least in the web world. The web's most popular icon set - FontAwesome - even has "font" right in the name.
- chrismorgan 6y agoTrue, there are a couple of different senses in which “gold standard” has come to be used. I was treating it as “the benchmark by which all else is compared”. But even so, I’d strongly disagree with any claim that a default practice exists for icons on the web. Images PNG, images SVG, background images PNG, background images SVG, inline SVG of a couple of varieties, icon fonts: all of these are extremely widely used, and none is in any way “standard” (let alone a reference paragon). Funny you should mention FontAwesome. I don’t know what direction they’re taking it in, but I look at how they’ve deployed the icons on their site, and… I’m seeing a lot of inline SVG.