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The implementation with the :before class definitely qualifies as a bit of a hack. No question.

Some of the icons themselves represent something of a universal language for websites. Using those symbols in a typeface is similar in some ways to character based languages like Japanese or Chinese. So I might argue that icons as fonts are quite an appropriate use.




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