Ligature Icons via Pseudo Elements and Icon Fonts

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The following is a guest post by Jason Jacobson, a senior engineer for Minneapolis based startup LeadPages®. Jason shows off something I didn't know was possible: turning a string into an icon. This requires an icon font, and I generally refer SVG for icons, but that doesn't stop this from being a bonafide CSS trick that is certainly worth knowing about!

Pseudo elements (i.e. ::before and ::after) have been a big help to me when creating sites, so …

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