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I just tried to embed one of these on a test site. It's really not that useful. The HTML code ends up taking up half a screen.

I'd prefer these icons dumped into a custom font file. Then it takes up literally one character in HTML and can be completely modified using CSS.



really? Because fonts on the web are so much easier to deal with than PNG files?


They come in svg format, which work on most modern browsers as well


Yes, but PNGs will be easier to deal with than SVG and webfonts. I guess SVG give you the flexibility of turning them into high-fidelity versions of whatever you want. I regularly use nounproject SVGs to create 'icons' in Microsoft's vector XAML format.




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