Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development

Anyone interested in using Icon Fonts should definitely check out [1] - it allows you to generate and download icon fonts by selecting vectors from different packs.<p>[1] <a href="http://icomoon.io/app/" rel="nofollow">http://icomoon.io/app/</a>

What, no FF Chartwell?<p><a href="http://tktype.com/chartwell.php" rel="nofollow">http://tktype.com/chartwell.php</a><p>As long as you can turn on ligatures in your font rendering API per-platform, this is a fully cross-platform solution to graphing, in a font file.<p>(Using printf's, basically, to do complicated graphs - absurd and awesome!)

Ok, I might be a bit slow. Can somebody explain to me the advantage of using a font file instead of a sprite png?<p>I understand that there would be advantages with a high resolution display. It would scale automatically. Anything beside that?

I wrote a script which generates iOS tab bar icon-sized sprites from the Font Awesome icon font: <a href="https://github.com/jogloran/Font-Awesome" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jogloran/Font-Awesome</a>

This title is pretty poor, could we get it changed to "How to use icon fonts in iOS development and why they are useful" or something like that?