From SVG to icon font and back.

“GitHub.com no longer delivers its icons via icon font. Instead, we’ve replaced all the Octicons throughout our codebase with SVG alternatives. While the changes are mostly under-the-hood, you’ll immediately feel the benefits of the SVG icons.”

“Personally, I’m increasing the use of SVG symbols in my projects, and avoiding icon fonts when it’s possible.“

“If you can go IE 9+ / Android 3+, inline SVG is better at pretty much everything than icon fonts.”

Ten reasons Lonelyplanet.com switched from an icon font to SVG.