We use a lot of icons on lonelyplanet.com and recently went through the task of transferring them from an icon font to SVG files. I wanted to share why we did this along with some of the drawbacks to SVG and how we got around them. 1. Separation of concernsWe use a custom font on lonelyplanet.com and we used to bundle the icons into the same file, storing the glyphs within the Private Unicode Area