Materialize css icons doesn't show up in Safari browser

I noticed that materialized CSS icons does not show up in Safari (v5.1.7 (7534.57.2). Well searched a lot on this topic but there haven't been any documentation on browser compatibility where safari has been listed. Could anyone let me know if this is a bug which needs to be fixed or are there any alternatives to get this work in Safari.

Other browsers

Safari Browser

PS:Other functionalities of materializecss works well except icons

Solution

I faced the exact same issue. The following approach helped me:

I was facing problems with the font-icons provided by materialize css. There seems to be some problem with the font-icons in case if you are self-hosting it. I will update my answer with the exact bug number. So to fix it I downloaded and used the font-icons provided by Google and followed the steps mentioned over here.

Be sure to append the following to your CSS:

.material-icons {
  font-family: 'Material Icons';
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  font-size: 24px;  /* Preferred icon size */
  display: inline-block;
  line-height: 1;
  text-transform: none;
  letter-spacing: normal;
  word-wrap: normal;
  white-space: nowrap;
  direction: ltr;

  /* Support for all WebKit browsers. */
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  /* Support for Safari and Chrome. */
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;

  /* Support for Firefox. */
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;

  /* Support for IE. */
  font-feature-settings: 'liga';
}

Another thing to make sure is to see to it that you are using all the font formats provided by google: WOFF2, WOFF, Truetype, EOT and even SVGs if possible to ensure cross browser compatibility.

In case if you are not self hosting the font-icons, just try including the above mentioned CSS code. I haven't tried this with CDN but it did work for me for self-hosted font-icons. So let us all know how things work out, so that in case if it doesn't, we can try some alternate solution.