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Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,945 Pointsglyphs
Hello,
If glyphs are images, why are we using font-size, color, and text-align on them? I thought these styles were used on text only and not images?
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font-size:3em;
display:block;
text-align:center;
color:#3a87ad;
}
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4 Answers
Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsHello, the glyphs are in font format, and that is why those styles can be used.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsThe glyphs library is a neat thing called an icon font.
An icon font is a font file which instead of containing letters it has icons. Thus because it's a font it can use all of those nifty font-related CSS properties you mentioned.
VanSeo Design has a great article on the magic that is icon fonts
Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsUnlike regular images (jpg, png, gif), font formats (woff, ttf, svg, eot) are scalable to any size without distortion. You can also give them color — sort of like in Photoshop. You can think of them more like the mathematical equivelent / equation of an image.
Here are some resources, and don't forget to check out the new Treehouse course Web Typography 
orange sky
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,945 PointsWhat does it mean to be in the font format? cheers!
Yves Roulin
4,452 PointsThat accept font styles (like font-size etc..)