title: imported google icons not sit in the baseline with its sibling text
body: <p>i am trying to import few google icons to make my navigation bar look bit nicer, but i found the icons its not sitting in the same baseline with its siblings text which its pretty annoying, and my solution was:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>a {
    position: relative;
  }
  
  span {
    font-size: 22px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;ul class="main-nav"&gt;
    &lt;a href="#"&gt;&lt;i class="material-icons"&gt;home&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;/ul&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>the <code>&lt;i&gt;</code>tag here it illustrates the icon of the home page and i made a <code>&lt;span&gt;</code>tag with "home"text to sit next to it. but i found the baseline between the icon and text are not in the same line. therefore, my solution was making the <code>span</code>tag to be absolute and give it size with 22px(icon size was 24*24) but it still not looks really satisfied.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is: is there any other elegant way to make this icon and text to sit in the same baseline?</p>