👋 Hey Developers!
I really love the icons used and provided by Microsoft in their products. And I always wish to use them in my projects. But it is pretty hard to find a way to use them. This post will help you to use them in your project!
It is pretty easy to set this up on both static and React apps.
🌐 Setting up on a static site
If you want to use it in your static site, you can include Fabric UI Core's CDN in your <head> like this 👇.
<link
rel="stylesheet"
href="https://static2.sharepointonline.com/files/fabric/office-ui-fabric-core/11.0.0/css/fabric.min.css"
/>
And once you have added that, it's as easy as doing this 👇.
<i class="ms-Icon ms-Icon--Mail" aria-hidden="true"></i>
You can refer this site and use any icon you want. Just copy the name and paste it in the place of Mail.
<i class="ms-Icon ms-Icon--Settings" aria-hidden="true"></i>
⚛ Setting up in a React App
There are 2 ways you can achieve this. 1st one is to include the CDN in the <head> tag in public/index.html and then use the <i> tag as we did in the static type. But I recommend the 2nd way which is better.
Install the @fluentui/react-icons package in your app using npm or yarn as per your preference.
npm i @fluentui/react-icons
## OR
yarn add @fluentui/react-icons
Once you do that you can easily import the icon components and use them in your app just like this one 👇
import { MailIcon, SettingsIcon } from '@fluentui/react-icons';
function App() {
return (
<div>
<MailIcon /> { /* Without any element */ }
<button>
<SettingsIcon /> { /* Within any element */ }
</button>
</div>
)
};
export default App;
As I said you can refer this site and copy the icon name and just append Icon after it.
Example: MailIcon, FeedbackIcon, etc.
I hope this post helped you achieve your goal. Please give it a like 💙 if you liked it. And share it if you want. Learn more about Fluent UI
Good luck 👍 and thanks for reading!
Top comments (6)
No One really likes Microsoft fluent design, neither the icons set.
Speak for yourself. That is quite offensive to some MS fans like myself. lol
It's my fav as well!
TBH, It's one of my favourite icon set. And I have heard from many people who like it too. It's just a matter of opinion. Which is different in our case 😉
I do 😀.
I would love to see an icon set from Pininfarina... 😉