I've been playing with fonts rencently, rediscovering those icon based font sets. I believe that most operating systems out there now come with these fonts installed by default, and they defintely are a nice and easy way to add icons to our website without having to design them and using very little bandwidth.

A few examples. Say that you need an icon for a discussion group, how about this:

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It's "^" using the Webdings font.

Staying with webdings, do you like peppers? Use a simple comma:

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You can also compose cool panoramas:

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Marc Barrot could use these, instead of gif files, for activeRenderer:

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So, keep an eye on these fonts

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