font-awesome

What is font-awesome?

The font-awesome npm package provides a convenient way to incorporate Font Awesome icons into web projects. Font Awesome is a popular icon set and toolkit that includes scalable vector icons that can be customized with CSS. It can be used in web design and development to enhance the user interface with icons for various purposes such as social media, UI controls, branding, and more.

What are font-awesome's main functionalities?

Adding Icons

This code sample demonstrates how to add a camera retro icon from Font Awesome into HTML. The 'fa' and 'fa-camera-retro' classes are used to apply the specific icon's styles.

<i class='fa fa-camera-retro'></i>

Size Customization

This code sample shows how to customize the size of an icon using the 'fa-lg' class for a larger size. Font Awesome provides additional classes like 'fa-2x', 'fa-3x', etc., to further adjust the icon size.

<i class='fa fa-camera-retro fa-lg'></i>

Animated Icons

This code sample illustrates how to create an animated spinning icon using the 'fa-spin' class. Font Awesome also offers the 'fa-pulse' class for a pulsing animation effect.

<i class='fa fa-spinner fa-spin'></i>

Stacked Icons

This code sample demonstrates how to stack icons on top of each other using the 'fa-stack' class. The 'fa-stack-1x' and 'fa-stack-2x' classes are used to layer the icons, and 'fa-inverse' is used to invert the color of the top icon.

<span class='fa-stack fa-lg'><i class='fa fa-square fa-stack-2x'></i><i class='fa fa-twitter fa-stack-1x fa-inverse'></i></span>

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material-icons

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ionicons

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README

#Font Awesome v4.0.3 ###the iconic font designed for Bootstrap

Font Awesome is a full suite of 369 pictographic icons for easy scalable vector graphics on websites, created and maintained by Dave Gandy. Stay up to date @fontawesome.

Get started at http://fontawesome.io!

##License

• The Font Awesome font is licensed under the SIL OFL 1.1:
  • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
• Font Awesome CSS, LESS, and SASS files are licensed under the MIT License:
  • http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
• The Font Awesome documentation is licensed under the CC BY 3.0 License:
  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• Attribution is no longer required as of Font Awesome 3.0, but much appreciated:
  • Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fontawesome.io
• Full details: http://fontawesome.io/license

##Changelog

• v3.0.0 - all icons redesigned from scratch, optimized for Bootstrap's 14px default
• v3.0.1 - much improved rendering in webkit, various bug fixes
• v3.0.2 - much improved rendering and alignment in IE7
• v3.1.0 - Added 54 icons, icon stacking styles, flipping and rotating icons, removed SASS support
• v3.1.1 GitHub milestones
• v3.2.0 GitHub milestones
• v3.2.1 GitHub milestones
• v4.0.0 GitHub milestones
• v4.0.1 GitHub milestones
• v4.0.2 GitHub milestones
• v4.0.3 GitHub milestones

##Versioning

Font Awesome 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 and misc changes bumps the patch

For more information on SemVer, please visit http://semver.org.

##Author

• Email: [e-mail]
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/davegandy
• GitHub: https://github.com/davegandy
• Work: Lead Product Designer @ http://kyru.us

##Component To include as a component, just run

$ component install FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

Or add

"FortAwesome/Font-Awesome": "*"

to the dependencies in your component.json.

Hacking on Font Awesome

From the root of the repository, install the tools used to develop.

$ bundle install
$ npm install

Build the project and documentation:

$ bundle exec jekyll build

Or serve it on a local server on http://localhost:7998/Font-Awesome/:

$ bundle exec jekyll serve