Base64 everything!

Only recently discovered another type of resource that you can embed in a web page to reduce requests; Font faces.

Perhaps not the best practice if you are including a full font face but, when the decision is between embedding a small subset of a font face (~700 bytes) and 2 small SVGs (~2.5kB each) it is very tempteng to choose the smaller option.

Ideally I would not include either but for content that has been agreed to be included whats the most sustainable choice?

I have a feeling that we may have to concede our experiments in favour of SVGs just for ease of styling and having a universally consistent look.