An excellent article. I've never been really fond of icon fonts, but they've appeared to have some pretty compelling advantages not easily obtainable otherwise

An excellent article. I've never been really fond of icon fonts, but they've appeared to have some pretty compelling advantages not easily obtainable otherwise; I'm glad to see such a well-reasoned article describe a means of replacing them which has most of the same advantages and what looks to be a considerably narrower range of drawbacks.