Tyler Sticka

Seriously, Don’t Use Icon Fonts

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/seriously-dont-use-icon-fonts/

I share it now, but Tyler wrote it 7 years ago, and many other said the same, so I really wonder why people keep using icon fonts… 🤦‍♂️

we need to stop. It’s time to let icon fonts pass on to Hack Heaven, where they can frolic with table-based layouts, Bullet-Proof Rounded Corners and Scalable Inman Flash Replacements. Here’s why…

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1. • Nicolas Hoizey
   • 3 November 2022
   • font, icon, Mastodon, UX
   • 18 reactions
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   Do we really need to repeat that using an icons font is a bad idea?

   This is #Mastodon UI right now:
   

   Fonts are not loaded because of an error (from a Service Worker?):
   

   Very welcoming for new Mastodon users… 😔

2. • Nicolas Hoizey
   • 11 May 2022
   • font, icon
   • 1 reaction
   • permalink

   How many times do we have to say it?

   Stop.
   Using.
   Icon fonts.

   Seriously, Don’t Use Icon Fonts.

   

   Here the font request responds with a 503 error (via the Service Worker)…