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		angry-hacker on Jan 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trello uses an icon font and so can you And have you seen how ugly it looks with Chrome on Windows 7? Which should be the most popular browser + most popular OS. So I disagree with you and the blog author you should use fonts as icons. They look ugly with Chrome + if fonts are not supported they don't show anything. At least if the image is missing you see X.

WickyNilliams on Feb 1, 2013 | [–]

It doesn't look great that's for sure, but you can still tell what the icons are i.e. it's good enough.

If you're designing things such that a missing icon causes the UI to be incomprehensible, you're probably designing it badly

minimaxir on Feb 1, 2013 | [–]

Fair enough. It's a compromise.

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