I ended up using a subset of them to keep weight down even further. Using this tool http://www.icnfnt.com/#/

That's the beauty of font awesome. You don't change how you work in Bootstrap. Font Awesome is designed to replace the sprites without having to change how you use bootstrap. You continue to use icon-... classes just like you do with the sprites, but now they're font icons.

Tanny

You write a letter, and have any number of additional documents supporting the letter. The end of the letter mentions these attachments, and you attach these documents... with a a paperclip.

I agree entirely. I love font icons. All the social/sharing icons to the top-right of this page are font-based.

What I was trying to do though was not add any extra weight to the version of Bootstrap I was using. I'm already weeks in to the build and have used countless sprite-based <i class="icon"> icons in the design. I wanted to keep using the same convention, rather than end up with two different ways of doing things.

As I understand the upcoming Bootstrap v3 using font icons ;-)

Jake

http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

I hope I don't sound like an advertisement, but I'm really excited about the possibilities of icon fonts. I'm not associated in any way with the group that created font awesome.