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So now users need to download several megabytes of font to display check marks and search icons or is there something I’m misunderstanding?

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From the developer guide:

> The icon font weighs in at only 42KB in its smallest woff2 format and 56KB in standard woff format. By comparison, the SVG files compressed with gzip will generally be around 62KB in size, but this can be reduced considerably by compiling only the icons you need into a single SVG file with symbol sprites.

So not that large, but I still prefer SVG icons.

It's nice that they provide a git repo for this font with all the icons in SVG format

It is a 42KB file for 600 icons.

And which would additionally, I assume, replace the use of bitmaps.

I'm surprised this question was even raised because vector graphics is the most size efficient way to do simple graphics on the web.

I would have expected it to work like the fonts, where you only query the things you need, and not everything. For performance reasons I assume people would still make a custom font/SVG set with only the icons they need.

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