Hi Sara,
I think you're meaning this? No it does not have to be a svg.

.menu li::after {
        font-family: 'athelas', serif;
        font-weight:bold;
        font-size: 16px;
        content: url('diamond.png');
}

Best,

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com




> On Jul 27, 2016, at 10:21 PM, Sara Haradhvala <har...@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I think you’re right.  The problem is that I need to use a glyph from 
> photoshop that isn’t assigned a unicode value.  Is there any way to use this 
> as text? Or does it have to be turned into an svg image?
> 
> 
>> On Jul 27, 2016, at 7:15 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh <e...@l-c-n.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 28, 2016, at 7:05 AM, Sara Haradhvala <har...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I set up this unicode in CSS
>>> 
>>> .menu li::after {
>>>     content: “◆”;
>>>     font-family: athelas, serif;
>>>     font-weight:bold;
>>>     font-size: 16px;
>>> }
>>> 
>>> My problem is that the diamond is much bigger in IE and somewhat bigger in 
>>> FF on Windows. 
>> 
>> One guess [*], as I don’t have access to that font (athelas): it does 
>> **not** contain a glyph for the character you want to display, and neither 
>> does the default serif font, then system fallback occurs – that is: Firefox 
>> and IE (Edge also ?) fall back to the default system font that contains that 
>> glyph. That happens to be bigger than the default one on OS X. And who knows 
>> what happens on Android.
>> 
>> There is not much you can do about it… except specifying a (fallback) font 
>> that is available cross platform (or via @font-face) that contains that 
>> glyph. For example:
>> 
>> font-family: 'athelas', 'arial unicode MS', sans-serif. // Roboto, the 
>> default on Android, has  very similar metrics
>> 
>> [*] a quick test on fonts.com (the official provider of that font) shows 
>> that, indeed, it does not contain a glyph for that ‘◆’ character.
>> 
>> Philippe
>> --
>> Philippe Wittenbergh
>> http://l-c-n.com/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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