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Creating symbol font in Inkscape

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Symbol font has nothing in common with symbol set of alphabet letters. It consists of symbols that can not be read and it is often used as a decoration. For modern web developers such font become the real escape from the infinite routine, which is connected with the preparation of icons (for example, social network icons) to display on different devices. When there is only one symbol - it seems not so difficult. But if you have several dozen of such symbols? Thanks to symbol fonts there is no need to save one file in different resolutions. With the help of CSS, you can change the color of symbol fonts, what can’t be done with regular icons. Also the biggest advantage is that these icons can change their size without losing quality. The last thing is important for high-resolution displays, such as Retina. It is also possible to apply different text effects to symbols (such as drop shadow). Besides, they are supported by most modern browsers. There are special construction services that ...