This is great. I think we're just seeing the beginning of the crazy things that people are going to be doing by abusing (in the best possible sense) opentype.
I use things like this and FontAwesome etc. a bunch, and they no doubt solve a real problem. But I also sort of wish that the problem were solved in a way that does not involve stuffing things that are not even remotely text into a font.<p>It seems like there should be a generic way to say "put image X (SVG, PNG, whatever) on the screen here, as if it were a glyph, and also do scaling and linebreaks and alignment properly, oh and colors and so on". I expect this already exists somewhere deep inside CSS - does anyone know the story?
Reminds me of this script to generate sparklines in the command line:<p><a href="https://github.com/holman/spark" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/holman/spark</a>