Advantages of using Icon Fonts
In the website images are an important part. By this images user directly know the context of the website.But the problem is using too much images add file weight. They require additional http requests.
For this, we can consider icon fonts to serve the place of images.
Advantages of using Icon Fonts
- We can easily scale the fonts.
- Changing the size of this icon fonts are very easy.
- They have a very good browser support in general
- They have smaller file sizes but supports a lots of characteristics
- We can add properties like change opacity, rotate, shadow,hover, active etc.i.e,we can use e text based css for this
- They are automatically scale for retina
- They are too efficient and effective, as we can avoid to generate sprites and manually position various sized images.
Some lists of icon fonts
- Font Awesome
- Signify Lite
- Symbolset
- Foundation