Webfonts are not being displayed. I kind of know why. Due to webpages displaying a font that looks wretched to me, I override the fonts to be Liberation Sans (although it happens with any other font choice). The only way I can have my font choice is if I tell the browser to override the default font. This jacks up the webfonts and stops them from displaying correctly altogether.

A quick example of this is duckduckgo.com. The search icon (a magnifying glass) and the preferences icon (three horizontal lines) turn into ugliness when forcing any font choice in the browser.

Is there a way to have /my/ font choice but still get webfont icons to display correctly?

Using Archlinux and Firefox (and Midori).

You need to set up your font configuration correctly.

To follow the "Arch Way", do it manually following the guides here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration

Alternatively, just use the Infinality repositories provided by @bohoomil:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality

There is also an issue relating to web designers dropping the font hinting instructions from their pages; you can use a hack to get around this as described in this forum post by @Earnestly:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic....96724#p1496724

Not a fix but a workaround: An Addon that lets you toggle "use web fonts" vs. "use own fonts".

If you use NoScript, it has a setting to disallow web fonts on untrusted websites.