In simple English
This library gives you thousands of small pictures for your website. You get arrows, checkmarks, social media logos and user interface symbols. You load them into your site with a line of code or a stylesheet. The free version gives you a large set of icons for commercial projects. The paid version unlocks more specialized pictures.
What it is
Font Awesome is a popular collection of icons packaged as scalable vector graphics (scalable vector graphics, an image format that stays sharp at any size) and web fonts. It provides stylesheets and JavaScript tools to place, size and style icons on any web page.
What it is good for
This toolkit is good for solo builders who need clean and consistent interface icons quickly. It removes the need to draw individual icons or search the internet for separate image files.
- Thousands of free icons ready for use in any project.
- Icons scale cleanly to any size without losing quality.
- Works easily with standard HTML and CSS styles.
- Custom licence terms require attribution notices to stay inside the files.
- The free set contains fewer specialized icons than the paid tier.
- Large icon files can slow down your web page if you load everything at once.
manually downloading individual SVG image files from random websites
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npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-free