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What is the advantage of using this over pngs?

• bdat 11y ago
  They will scale well with high ppi screens.
  • loopbit 11y ago
    To be honest, the same can be said for svg images without the need to load a css file (4KB minified) plus a font file (55-230KB). Specially taking into account that most places will use only a few of these icons.
    • bdat 11y ago
      I was only explaining the advantage over png. Great point about the use-case though. The average site is probably not going to offer 95 payment options/operators; a specialized svg library might be more appropriate.
    • subsection1h 11y ago
      An icon font generator/subsetting tool can produce a font file that includes only the icons that are needed.
• Brajeshwar 11y ago
  PNG is raster and so they do not scale on various sizes (various devices and their screen-sizes), not to mention of the retina display that one needs to take care. SVGs and/or Icon fonts are vector and scalable.
• phragg 11y ago
  One extremely useful benefit is that you can change the text-size, color, etc just as you would with CSS on these fonts.