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Segoe Fluent Icons font – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/28

For modern scaleable UI applications, it helps a lot when one has a consistently designed scalable icon set with icons having the same dimensions and features.

In more than just one sense, designing and developing such sets is a lot like developing and designing scaleable fonts. It is not surprising that by now many of these are available as fonts.

Ons of them is [Wayback/Archive] Segoe Fluent Icons font – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn which on the page has the complete list: an impressive one indeed and as such a leap from the old dingbat fonts like Zapf Dingbats fonts (yes, I am more than ITC Zapf Dingbats old; most glyphs ended up in the Dingbats (Unicode block) in 1991), Wingdings from Microsoft Windows 3.1 on, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 in Microsoft Office versions until Office 2010, and the – now part of Core fonts for the web – Webdings as of Internet Explore 4.

Those old fonts only had small sets of icons – usually no more than 230, some just dozens – and Segoe Fluent Icons has a huge set of icons.

Via

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Music Software & Interface Design: MuseScore – YouTube (which is very font heavy, both for the music font glyphs – there is even a SMuFL standard for that – and icon glyps) at 9 minutes 10 seconds.
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Segoe MDL2 Assets icons – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn

Related:

Clarity Icons:

I think I still like icon fonts over icon SVGs, but hey I’m an old fart, so convince me otherwise. [Wayback/Archive] Seriously, Don’t Use Icon Fonts – Cloud Four isn’t convincing: I have seen SVG based icons go awry too often (especially when they get their sizes or placements wrong like covering more than half your page).

Music related MuseScore fonts:

Queries:

--jeroen

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