Noticed that the SVG icons we're importing via <IcomoonReact> weren't quite as smooth as they could be, specifically noticed some artifacts on the "corners" of the path of the reply-filled icon.
I tried various approaches (from StackOverflow, blogs, etc) to try to determine what was causing the artifacts and how to resolve the issue (eg setting shape-rendering explicitly).
In experimenting with the icon using the browser developer tools, I noticed that setting stroke to none caused the artifacts to disappear. This was strange because the source SVG for reply-filled we're passing into the <IcomoonReact> component is a single path with a fill and no stroke. So I tried to figure out where the stroke was coming from.
I clicked into node_modules/react-icomoon/src/index.tsx (https://github.com/aykutkardas/react-icomoon/blob/807a42cf61c8e26c078c5818ba0736afc003032a/src/index.tsx#L60) to see what was going on and found that <IcomoonReact> prepares a container for the SVG to "live inside" and sets various SVG properties. Specifically, they set stroke to currentColor. Even though there's no stroke width or whatever, this leads to some visual weirdness when rendered in Safari/Chrome.
To verify that IcomoonReact setting stroke was the issue, I went into the library's dist folder and tried commenting the line out. After reloading the web app I confirmed that the artifacts no longer appeared.
This diff explicitly sets stroke to none in the CommIcon component which passes the style down to IcomoonReact to override the stroke set in the inner component. This change gets rid of the artifacts and the icons look as expected.