title: How to use font glyphs on windows 8 tile?
body: <p>I'm trying to figure out how to use a font glyph like the check box and check used in the windows 8 tile example from this page: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/Hh761491.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The tile template catalog</a> under the "Task lists" example at the bottom.</p>
  
  <p>I couldn't find much on how to get this to work because it appears there is a limitation on setting the font type in a tile.</p>
  
  <p>On the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj841126.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Segoe UI Symbol icon list</a> page, it says, "If you are working with tiles, you can't use these glyphs because you can't specify the tile font and PUA glyphs are not available via font-fallback.".</p>
  
  <p>But I'm just wondering why there would be an example on the tile template catalog page with a font glyph?</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to set the font type inside of the tile xml? Or what are some alternatives that might get the same result?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wOcE5.png" alt="App tile with glyph"></p>