The Magic of Font Icons
With the release of Windows 8.1 came a little noticed
addition to XAML called FontIcon. It is a rather simple XAML
tag designed to show a glyph from a specified font. At the
same time came two other tags in a similar vain (SymbolIcon
which shows a glyph from Segoe UI and PathIcon which
displays a path).
On it's own, FontIcon isn't extremely useful. Most of
the basic glyphs are already part of Segoe UI and most of
the other symbol fonts...
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