MkDocs Material comes packaged with many icons, and makes it very easy to use them in markdown. You can put short-codes anywhere in your Markdown, and they render perfectly.
<!-- some markdown file -->
:smile:
:material-account-circle:
I can't seem to figure out how to use these icons in HTML templates however. How can the icons packaged with MkDocs Material be used in HTML templates?
<!-- an HTML template used to render markdown -->
<span class="octicon octicon-clippy"></span> <!-- doesn't work -->