Magento Adminhtml Font and Markup

Question

I want to customize the Magento admin with an stylish icon font (think Wingdings).

In most cases it's easy enough to do entirely via CSS with the :before pseudo-selector, outputting content: that is relevant and is styled with the aforementioned font.

But, in some cases, I don't just want to prepend an icon - I want the entire text to be in said font. My first thought is to do it via translation file:

translate.csv:

"CMS","<span class='iconify'>CMS</span>"

So - while this may work - it feels like a hack and I'm concerned that the markup would be used in places I don't intend it to be. I'd really like some feedback on alternate methods of accomplishing this. Is there a better way?

Answer 1

As no answers suggested something more elegant, the approach I took was to inject the tag markup via the translation file:

"CMS","<span class='iconify'>CMS</span>"