Comments on: Icons as fonts http://boagworld.com/design/icons-as-fonts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=icons-as-fonts Advice on web design and digital strategy from Paul Boag Tue, 21 May 2013 11:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: bgrggfe http://boagworld.com/design/icons-as-fonts/#comment-9495 bgrggfe Sat, 26 May 2012 02:04:00 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=7391#comment-9495 Do you know who is the prolocutor star of Louis Vuitton Handbags Online  now? It is the Sofia Coppola, she is well-know with the director of movies. Of course she like the LV very much ,especial the Louis Vuitton Wallet,but she never buy something from the Louis Vuitton outlet store, because she always get freely and show the newest louis vuitton items .

]]> By: Heydon Pickering http://boagworld.com/design/icons-as-fonts/#comment-9494 Heydon Pickering Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:40:00 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=7391#comment-9494 The latest development is to use specialised unicode characters to represent the glyphs.

Incidentally, I offer two free / royalty free sets that you are welcome to extend (so long as you rename the resulting set!).

These are available on font squirrel: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/foundry/Heydon-Pickering

]]> By: Eric Eggert http://boagworld.com/design/icons-as-fonts/#comment-9492 Eric Eggert Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:54:00 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=7391#comment-9492  Please see this article (by myself) for clarification about accessibility: http://yatil.net/a-better-way-to-use-icon-fonts (could easily be integrated into a web font loader script for example).

]]> By: Paul Seys http://boagworld.com/design/icons-as-fonts/#comment-9490 Paul Seys Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:22:00 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=7391#comment-9490 My thoughts exactly, surely this has accessibility implications as you’ll end up with random characters dispersed throughout your site. 

]]> By: Peter Warman http://boagworld.com/design/icons-as-fonts/#comment-9489 Peter Warman Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:30:00 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=7391#comment-9489 I’m not convinced about 

]]> By: Tim Woodward http://boagworld.com/design/icons-as-fonts/#comment-9488 Tim Woodward Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:07:00 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=7391#comment-9488 I agree – having random characters strewn about your content isn’t ideal for screen readers, and unlike images can’t be used as background “images”. I wonder if using a text-indent: -10000px as default and correcting it with javascript would work – I don’t know the intricacies of JAWS or other screenreaders. 

]]> By: Aaron Hodges http://boagworld.com/design/icons-as-fonts/#comment-9486 Aaron Hodges Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:27:00 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=7391#comment-9486 But surely these are read by screen readers, spiders, etc?

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