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I like the mapping to Unicode where possible.

May I ask: What's this like for accessibility? How do screen readers render these?

The icons can be made "invisible" to screen readers by including the icon in a custom data attribute (e.g. [data-icon]) and using the right unicode character.

The creator of IcoMoon (http://keyamoon.com/icomoon/) has made a nice demo video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWq7idrW2yU

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