Thursday, 5 April 2012

Using Fonts for Icons…


Icons are inseparable part of a GUI (graphical user interfaces) design. We are downloading, buying and creating icons for ages. Using Fonts for Icons is a good idea, I'm telling you.
Icon Fonts are Awesome:

  • Because you can easily change the size
  • Because you can easily change the color
  • Because you can easily shadow their shape
  • Because they can have transparent knockouts, which work in IE6 unlike alpha transparent pngs.
  • Because you can do all the other stuff image based icons can do, like change opacity or rotate or whatever.
  • You'll be able to do things like add strokes to them with text-stroke or add gradients/textures with background-clip: text; once browser support is a bit deeper..
Click to the image and download the font:
  








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