But apart from those 10 icons and some styles, all other icons are of no use to us. Resizing is done through attributes, flipping, stacking, spinning is all possible with font awesome. Adding icons is as simple as adding a tag.

The hard way(generating a custom font on your own)įont awesome makes a web designers life easy. If you have used local png icons using css sprite sheets, you’ll know the pain of changing or adding an icon.

Why do we use such a huge library for just 10 icons? Because adding or removing or changing an icon is very easy in font awesome. If we include share button icons and footer icons, the number grows. They are easy to use and they are infinitely scalable!Ī simple website uses at least 4 to 5 icons. Many designers use this instead of PNG, JPEG or SVG images because font awesome makes designing easy. It is just like a font but in place of letters, we have icons!ĭave Gandy created font awesome in 2012. Gone are the days where individual icons were used like an image. Icons are an integral part of web designing.

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