Benefits of using font Icons over Images

Now a days the web developers are using font icons rather than images as icons in their web sites. There are a lot of advantages of using font icons. If you are still in a dilemma whether to use font icons or images, after reading this post I guarantee that you will be very clear about the usage of font icons.

What are those Benefits?

• As they are just fonts, you can apply any CSS effect to them just like you do for fonts.
• They are vector graphics so you can scale them up or down very flexibly.
• You can apply colours and transformations just like you do for other HTML elements.
• They are very fast to load and required only one HTTP request.
• They are supported by any browser with any version number, which means they are cross browser compatible and mobile friendly.

There are some Cons also let me discuss them with you. Then you can decide to use them or not.

What are Cons?

• You can style them with only single colour.

I think this is the only single disadvantage in using font icons.

What are it's Libraries?

• Font-Awesome
• IcoMoon
• Bootstrap

These are most used font icon libraries. You can open links and find get started guide.

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