The fad for icon fonts is a little silly, imo. I’m not that crazy about trying to replace all text on an app with a curious little picture. But, icons do have their uses, and I generally load Font Awesome on the sites I build, if I can use the social media, RSS, and gear icons.
But seeing Chris Behr’s Nice Things icon set (not a font, just a set of images) I was thinking, cool, how can I use some of these?