It's a lot of work to support the font-based Octicons. Doing so in 4.0 has introduced some regressions #107. We also rely very heavily on grunt-webfont, which isn't the most active project out there. We won't be able to realistically dog food the font version since github.com has since switched to SVG.

I think we should consider deprecating font-based Octicons.

Thoughts @jonrohan?