Change color of PNG image via CSS?

Question

Given a transparent PNG displaying a simple shape in white, is it possible to somehow change the color of this through CSS? Some kind of overlay or what not?

Answer 1

You might want to take a look at Icon fonts. http://css-tricks.com/examples/IconFont/

EDIT: I'm using Font-Awesome on my latest project. You can even bootstrap it. Simply put this in your :

And then go ahead and add some icon-links like this:

Here's the full cheat sheet

--edit--

Font-Awesome uses different class names in the new version, probably because this makes the CSS files drastically smaller, and to avoid ambiguous css classes. So now you should use:

EDIT 2:

Just found out github also uses its own icon font: Octicons It's free to download. They also have some tips on how to create your very own icon fonts.