Icons and the Web: Symbols of the Modern Age
summary
Covers why modern icons favor vectors and practical steps to deploy them: claim is that SVG beats icon fonts and rasters for scalability and accessibility; recommends three delivery patterns—background images, inline SVG in DOM, and SVG sprite via <use> merged from Illustrator exports (IcoMoon helps) so one cached file serves many IDs. Design rules: simple, consistent, unique, memorable, test contrast and pixel-ratio rendering. Accessibility wins by adding title for screen readers and testing on real devices; Vectra’s build merges icons into one SVG and it works.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:54The Windy Castle
- 4:04Symbols In Antiquity
- 7:18(Dis)ambiguation
- 8:11Icons in the Wild
- 19:22(Not) Choosing Icons
- 23:45Design Philosophy
- 30:55Enter the Web
- 36:30Implementation
- 40:17Accessibility
- 46:44Further Reading
