Icon Fonts

Mar 20, 2014 Symbol font icon vs image icon

It helps to move the tiny icons into a single file of fonts. Many high-traffic websites have replaced their site’s image icons into single symbol fonts. These fonts are used as icons, glyphs, and decorations. Symbol fonts turn the blocky raster icon images into smooth vector images through HTML. Almost all web browsers including IE6 can embed fonts in an HTML page. According to the designers, the design for an icon or logo is subtly different at different sizes.
Mar 16, 2014 Web font icons - exciting and disappointing web trend

Luckily for web designers and developers Icon fonts do not take this road. Web icon fonts can also be described as super sprites due to them being comprised of both letters and also punctuation marks. Some of the Benefits of Icon Fonts Site Attractiveness – Icon fonts will be much clearer to the viewers’ eyes, even on the high-resolution screens such as the Retina screen.
Mar 13, 2014 The Iconic Fonts Revolution - Pros and Cons

Ever since the advent of @font-face in CSS (supported even in Internet Explorer since version 4.), web designers have found themselves free from the constraints of specifying fallback fonts likely to appear on all operating systems. Not only has this revolutionized web-based typesetting for content and navigation, but the increasing number of web-friendly icon fonts has allowed designers to use font glyphs to replace buttons and small graphics.
Mar 12, 2014 The New Iconic Fonts to Enliven Your Icon Sets

The latest iconic fonts and symbol fonts such as Font Awesome, Entypo, Iconic, Elusive, IcoMoon, Fontello, Typeicons, Linecons, can bring more substance and value to any of the textual content that you are using on your website designs. An iconic symbol is one used as an open source in creating icons and many website designers and even webmasters are using graphical icons and fonts in order to add more attractiveness on their content and website designs.
Mar 12, 2014 Icon Converter for Better Icon Customization Experience

Icon designing can help perk up symbols, marks or fonts that can add to a more enticing feature to any contextual or graphic presentation to a website. Website designing usually considers what kind of icons and fonts to use in order to develop a better engagement between the web page interface and website visitors for better viewing experience.
Mar 07, 2014 Symbol and Icon fonts

When you need a simple icon to enhance a word or be simply informative, icon fonts are a great alternative. Why should I use these fonts? Well I just mentioned a couple of reasons but don't worry because there a lot more good ones on why you should consider using icon fonts: Icon fonts are completely scalable, in these types of icons you can simply increase the font size and they will scale without loosing quality. i.camera-icon { color: #4BCED1; font-size: 24px; }