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I don’t care since the icon font approach is technically inferior to SVG icons: it’s monochrome only, whereas SVG supports colors and transparency. Icon fonts
by eurasiantiger 6y ago
I don’t care since the icon font approach is technically inferior to SVG icons: it’s monochrome only, whereas SVG supports colors and transparency.
Icon fonts also suffer from a plethora of rendering issues across platforms because fonts are usually rendered with speedy display of long text in mind.
It’s strange Google would invest in a years-old kludge tech.
- jfoster 6y agoWell, it's a good thing it's under Apache 2.0, then. Maybe someone will convert/trace them as SVGs and sublicense them...
- scoot 6y agoThey're available as SVGs. They link to the GitHub repo at the top of the page, and if you select any icon, there's a download SVG button.
- mappu 6y agoFonts can actually contain coloured glyphs now, originally for emoji. Although it does seem like a layering violation.
- eurasiantiger 6y agoGood luck recoloring them in CSS :/