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Replacing Unicode shapes with icon font characters that are unrelated strikes me as a bad idea. Why not just use the private use area?

Edit: Another point - not having those lines over free icons would be nice.

alzOP

hi there, thanks for the feedback! you're right there is no reason to have the lines over free icons. We'll consider this for the next update. Regarding the private use area, actually pictonic font icons are mapped to the private use area for precisely the reasons you describe

huh, OK. The ones on the homepage for reddit and youtube and so on weren't.

edit: actually maybe they are but they are used for symbols in the font I'm using

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