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Well, the icons are responsive. They increase and decrease in detail depending on their size.

So does http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ and many others.

The advantage here is using multiple colors ... but the disadvantage is that you need to load the files individually.

Fontawesome icons can be set to any color you want with CSS.

EDIT: My mistake, the website was down but I see now how it has multiple colors in the same icon. I would still stick with FA though.

FontAwesome icons are not responsive. They always show the same graphic no matter of a screen size.

> FontAwesome icons are not responsive.

That's not right. It's a font. It will be scaled properly, same as regular fonts.

Not sure if you got that this new icon set actually changes the image to be more legible at different sizes by showing different amounts of detail. The big microphone has more dots on it than the little one.

The point is that the icons come in 3 sizes, so a small icon has less details, then a large one, this is a feature missing in the most icons sets: http://blog.useiconic.com/designing-iconic-across-different-...

That is built into svg, so Noun project would be "responsive" as well.

Not resolution. detail.

Good point.

How, without some clever javascript (in which case you might as well use something like iconic)?

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