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An overabundance of monochrome icons

Glyph fonts like Font Awesome, Fontelico, Entypo, Typicons contain hundreds of monochrome icons. From official websites, you can download their full versions in font file format (ttf, woff, woff2) containing hundreds of glyphs.

Site interfaces usually use only a few dozen glyphs. By removing the excess, you will make the file easier and speed up the download. In the service [fontello.com ](https://fontello.com /) You can make your own set of icons of popular glyph fonts. Glyph font editing is also available in the service [icomoon.io ](https://icomoon.io/app /).

We recommend using more modern practices and transferring icons to a CSS file in the form of SVG images. Uploading several tens of kilobytes in a CSS file with icons is faster than making an additional request for a separate file. And it’s easier for a programmer to edit the CSS file code than to use a special service for glyph fonts.

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