Ask HN: Do you use a custom icon font library or a service like Font Awesome?

6 points by ilangorajagopal 7 years ago | 3 comments

If you use a custom icon font library, how do you keep it up to date as you add new icons?

seanwilson 7 years ago |

Use SVG instead? I'm not sure why you'd want to use an icon font anymore.

Isn't it easier? All of the required icons are in one place, it requires far lesser number of requests especially if you use a lot of icons in your application.

I understand why SVG is better if you use only a few icons or you need multiple colors etc.

seanwilson 7 years ago | | |

Number of requests don't really matter anymore with HTTP2 which also means you only need to include the SVG images you actually use of each page. You can use SVG sprite sheets if you really want them in a single file.