ficons

Ficons

A Minimalist, Drop In Font Awesome Replacement

Ficons is a Simple, Open-Source, Drop-In Alternative for Font Awesome Icons. Maintained by The Fiction Team.

Get started at https://ficons.fiction.com!

• Installation
• Icons Reference
• Examples

Motive

Font Awesome, by Dave Gandy, is a popular icon libary for websites and the web. This is because it was the first open-source project to do an icon font simply and elegantly.

However, over the last 5 years the icons in the set have become a bit dated and over used. Therefore, we saw the opportunity to update the library while maintaining the simple and common-sense method for using Font Awesome icons.

To do this, we simply maintained the simple fa-icon-name class system and left Font Awesome icons as fallbacks if we don't provide a replacement.

Doing this makes Ficons a "drop-in" replacement for Font Awesome, which means you can simply replace your CDN link to Font Awesome CSS with the CDN link to Ficons CSS.

TLDR You can just replace your Font Awesome CDN link with the one from Ficons and everything should work the same, only better.

Features:

• Get over 200 new or replaced icons
• Minimal and more consistent redesign
• Simple, drop-in replacement for Font Awesome's 'fa-' class system
• Update your site or apps icons in 60 seconds

Quick Start

Replace your Font Awesome CDN Link with the Ficons one as follows:

<link type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ficons@1.1.36/dist/ficons/font.css" />

Author

• Email: [e-mail]
• GitHub: https://github.com/fictiondotcom/

License

• Full details: https://ficons.fiction.com/license.html

Versioning

Ficons will be maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines as much as possible. Releases will be numbered with the following format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

And constructed with the following guidelines:

• Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major (and resets the minor and patch)
• New additions, including new icons, without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor (and resets the patch)
• Bug fixes, changes to brand logos, and misc changes bumps the patch