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		ot on March 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for u... The icons look great! The font rendering engine is still the cheapest and most convenient way for having small scalable graphics. Note that this trick is as old as Windows 3.1, as Raymond Chen points out in his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/16/10256... (The blog name "Old New Thing" is spot-on as always :) )

kjhughes on March 7, 2012 [–]

And character set graphics (code page 437 from IBM PC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437, PETSCII from Commodore PET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII, etc) predates the Windows technique, albeit without scaling.

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