gitlabhq/gitlabhq — pull request #1715 by riyad (2012-10-16 18:47:31+00:00)
Title: Use Fomt Awsome for icons

Adds support for using [Font Awsome](http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/) for icons.
Font Awsome is basically a *font* containing icons instead of the characters of the alphabet.
It can be used for displaying icons the same way Bootstrap does it (in fact it is a drop in replacement).

Benefits:
* no spriting of icons necessary
* icons are resizable and still look good
* icons can be colored
* more icons than Bootstrap

GitHub has a nice blog post for how they are using this technique: https://github.com/blog/1106-say-hello-to-octicons