Font Awesome is really… AWESOME
One of the things that gives a designer a headache when starting to code a website, is cutting and inserting icons from the layout they've placed into the site they're coding on. Because the icons must be inserted pixel-by-pixel or they will not be displayed in the wrong place. I used to be very frustrated and annoyed when I had to do this boring stuff, until I came to know Font Awesome. And I feel like I've found heaven on the earth. Like how I enjoy a delicious bowl of hot ramen on a chilly autumn night.
Okay, so before we run out, What is Font Awesome?
Font Awesome has been known to be one of the libraries of font letters that are visual symbols used in web pages. It's a font, guys, but not a normal font like A, B, C. They are icons.
Font Awesome can be built into formats with various font files like otf, eot, ttf files, etc., so it can be easily installed and used as it is compatible with most operating systems on computers today.
Then Is it difficult to install Font Awesome?
The answer is extremely simple.
First, visit Font Awesome's website and download its library. Then create a path to link the file “font-awesome.min.css” to the html file you are working on.
You can refer to this picture
Next, you just need to return to the company's website and select the icon set to use.
For example, if you want to use this coffee cup icon, for example, its name is "coffee", then follow the instructions below.
In addition, we can change the color, resize and even rotate 90%.
Big advantage of Font Awesome
If we use images, the loading speed of the website will be slower because we have to load an image quite heavily. But with Font Awesome, you only need to load a CSS file, a Font file and only load it once, so the speed will be significantly improved.
An image cannot change its color or size. As for the size, we can use CSS to set the width and height, but if we do so, the image quality will be affected. But with Font Awesome, you can easily change the size and color of the icon with the usual CSS properties of the font like color, font-size or any other CSS property for the font.
So, those things are enough for you to see the greatness of this font set?
From the day I knew it, I loved it so much. Learning to code is very interesting, isn't it?
