how md-icons are rendered on browser

Question

I am using material2 and Material icons in my project. I want to know how these named icons are rendered in the browser. I have used

Answer 1

This feature is called ligatures which allows to render icons using name.

you can find more details in below link

https://alistapart.com/article/the-era-of-symbol-fonts

http://google.github.io/material-design-icons/#icon-font-for-the-web