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Manage Web UI Icons with CSS Custom Properties
This article suggests that icons in web interfaces are best handled as design tokens through CSS custom properties and pseudo-elements, avoiding cumbersome inline SVG or icon fonts. The author explains how developers can establish global icon definitions using CSS custom properties like `--icon-start`, enabling dynamic overrides based on user state, interactions, or media queries. The post also covers the implementation of this approach and necessary CSS adjustments for Safari's WebKit rendering issues.
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