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title: "Category: Icons"
url: https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/resources/icons/
description: "Entries filed under the Icons category on The Modern Web."
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# Category: Icons

Entries filed under Icons.

## [February 2017](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/)

### [Font Awesome 5 is nearly here and it looks, well, awesome](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/font-awesome-5/)

Before scalable icon sets, interface symbols were images, and every size and colour variant was another file to produce and cache. Treating icons as glyphs meant a single dependency could serve a whole interface, scale cleanly, and be recoloured with the same CSS that styles text.

Filed under: [CSS](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/css/), [Icons](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/resources/icons/), [Web Design](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-design/), [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/font-awesome-5/)