Discussion on: How to use Fontawesome

[huncyrus]

I thought it will be a deep introduction for the FA. Just quick small additions:

• You can customize it through various ways (like recompile it from sass or at download with simple naming)
• The font contains webfont, classical font and SVG based variant to make it work on every browser
• icons as fonts could/may give hard time for accessibility
• Absolutely fast and easy was to build something
• Have to consider some caching strategy or customise option to ship product level because of size

Personal note:

• Worth to check out competitors, such as gliph icons, icomoon or other tools because there are a few dozen of version
• Many company ditched icons and started to use svg only custom tailored versions

...We can use inline styling...
But shouldn't like never ever.

[Chris Bongers]

100% agreed, you must understand it's hard to write a blog every day and include every possible aspect of what can happen or options there are.

So hence it always being very small starting elements.

I indeed choose the SVG option for many of my website, most of the time I only need 3/4 icons and will choose to just use the SVG code instead of loading font awesome.

As of the inline styling, You are correct! Haha, it shouldn't be used.
Although it seems to be coming back more with React etc. that will render more inline nowadays.

Thank you so much for the addition, put some points on my todo list to refactor as well.

[Chris Bongers]

Here is the SVG option: daily-dev-tips.com/posts/fontaweso...