Is it okay to use a 7000px + Image Sprite for Retina Ready Icons?

[asiek]

Trying to use icons from [http://iconmonstr.com/](http://iconmonstr.com/ “http://iconmonstr.com/”) and they are 512px by 512px large.

I minimized the size a tad, then I created a gigantic sprite…

I just want to know if this is a bad choice using such a huge sprite.
Should I just use each 512px Icon separately? Or are there other options?

Please Help…

[TheDoc]

Definitely not okay. Also keep in mind the file size. Is there *any* point in time where you’ll need a 512×512 icon?

[will_wallace85]

[http://icomoon.io/app/](http://icomoon.io/app/ “”)
[http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/](http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/ “”)

Setup your custom font and use Paul Irish’s bullet point font face and never use single color icon’s as images again. Doing it this way will allow you easily re-color any of the “images” and re-size them to be whatever size you want them to be and, in my personal expirience, usually end up smaller than a well optimized sprite.

[TheDoc]

Except for this case: [Creating Compatible Web Content](https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/CreatingContentforSafarioniPhone/CreatingContentforSafarioniPhone.html “Creating Compatible Web Content”)

(scroll down to **Know iOS Resource Limits**)

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