Today most applications are being used on multiple devices, which means developers have to make their applications “responsive”. Icon-fonts, as their name suggests, represent icons on the screen using a font rather than using an individual image file, like a PNG or a JPG. Think FontAwesome or Bootstrap Glyphicons. The rise of flat design has also led to the popularity of icon-fonts. Because no matter how aesthetically pleasing your application, what matters ultimately are the benefits it provides to the end user. With flat design, the theory goes, graphical clutter is swept away and the user can rightly focus on using the application to be entertained, or to accomplish some important task. What exactly is flat design? By favoring two-dimensional graphical elements without any embellishments (shadows, bezels, embossing, color gradients, etc.), flat design principles remove potentially distracting elements from the mix that (some would argue) serve no functional purpose for the end user. In fact it’s become so popular among developers that if we’re not there yet, we may well be approaching “peak flat” (an oxymoron if ever there was one!). In the world of web and mobile application development, the use of minimalist or “flat” design principles has reached a fever pitch.
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