// Mixins
  // --------------------------
  
  .fa-icon() {
    display: inline-block;
    font: normal normal normal @fa-font-size-base/@fa-line-height-base FontAwesome; // shortening font declaration
    font-size: inherit; // can't have font-size inherit on line above, so need to override
    text-rendering: auto; // optimizelegibility throws things off #1094
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
    -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
  
  }
  
  .fa-icon-rotate(@degrees, @rotation) {
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=@rotation);
    -webkit-transform: rotate(@degrees);
        -ms-transform: rotate(@degrees);
            transform: rotate(@degrees);
  }
  
  .fa-icon-flip(@horiz, @vert, @rotation) {
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=@rotation, mirror=1);
    -webkit-transform: scale(@horiz, @vert);
        -ms-transform: scale(@horiz, @vert);
            transform: scale(@horiz, @vert);
  }