Some icons are verbs, some icons are nouns Getting fluent at the language of iconography

Iconography is a language

Iconography is so close to our traditional language system, that referring iconography as a language may differ from referring UI design as a language, because the latter is more of a metaphor and the former is more literal. So literal, that we create fonts for icons now, just like we do with text.

 https://medium.com/@wenting_zhang/getting-fluent-at-the-language-of-iconography-3415d03d0a8f?mc_cid=ec02ba64fc&mc_eid=a87e96cbb0