Use of icon fonts and links

1. Why should we use icon fonts?
2. Why not use icon fonts?
3. What are the advantages of using fonts instead of images as icons?
4. Why should we use icon fonts if possible because they look better because they scale endlessly and therefore don t blur because browsers deal better with them?

Why should we use icon fonts?

Using fonts to render icons has multiple benefits: Being vector-based, they're infinitely scalable, unlike rasterized images. Contained in one file, the file size is considerably smaller than a collection of individual images—even vector-based ones.

Why not use icon fonts?

Icon fonts are notoriously bad for accessibility and can lead to some frustrating experiences for those who rely on assistive technologies. Treated like text — The browser treats fonts like text because that is what fonts are supposed to be.

What are the advantages of using fonts instead of images as icons?

A major advantage of icon fonts is they scale very nicely; they increase in size with much better quality than raster images. Also, since a font icon is text, CSS can easily be applied to adjust the size and change the color.

Why should we use icon fonts if possible because they look better because they scale endlessly and therefore don t blur because browsers deal better with them?

Benefits of Icon Fonts

By adopting icon fonts for your website design, there's no need to render icons on web pages using images. So, you can avoid the problems of using images, such as the fact that they add file weight, require additional HTTP requests, and don't scale well, by using icon fonts instead.