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Custom fonts in Github's markdown (like README.md)?

Is it possible to use custom fonts with github's markdown? I'm currently loading an image as a logo, yet rendering a font would be faster and nicer.

Solution

  • rendering a font would be faster and nicer.

    Yes, except you wound not use any (multiple) colors in said "icon as a font".
    See "GitHub redesigns its icons using a custom font"

    You can, of course, take a monotone font-rendered icon and set its colour to, for example, red or blue, but that changes the entire icon; you can’t have different parts of the icon use different colours, or use shading

    (example of CSS effects for Icon Font here, from the Trello article)

    But, as far as I can see (Markdown Cheatsheet, and Markdown Help), no, you cannot have a custom font.