Get Started with Fork Awesome

Want to manage and host Font Awesome assets yourself? You can download, customize, and use the icons and default styling manually. Both CSS and CSS Preprocessor (Sass and Less) formats are included.

Download

Using CSS

Copy the entire font-awesome directory into your project.

In the <head> of your html, reference the location to your font-awesome.min.css.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css">

Check out the examples to start using Font Awesome!

Using Sass or Less

Use this method to customize Font Awesome using Less or Sass.

Copy the font-awesome/ directory into your project.
Open your project's font-awesome/less/variables.less or font-awesome/scss/_variables.scss and edit the @fa-font-path or $fa-font-path variable to point to your font directory.
```
@fa-font-path:   "../font";
```
The font path is relative from your compiled CSS directory.
Re-compile your Less or Sass if using a static compiler. Otherwise, you should be good to go.
Check out the examples to start using Font Awesome!

Less Ruby Gem

Use the Official Font Awesome Less Ruby Gem to easily get Font Awesome Less into a Rails project. Generously maintained by @supercodepoet.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
```
gem 'font-awesome-less'
```
And then execute:
```
$ bundle
```
Or install it yourself as:
```
$ gem install font-awesome-less
```

If you use Rails, add this to your e.g. application.less:

@import "font-awesome-sprockets";
@import "font-awesome";

Sass Ruby Gem

Use the Official Font Awesome Sass Ruby Gem to easily get Font Awesome Sass into a Rails or Compass project. Generously maintained by @supercodepoet.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
```
gem 'font-awesome-sass'
```
And then execute:
```
$ bundle
```
Or install it yourself as:
```
$ gem install font-awesome-sass
```

If you use Rails, add this to your e.g. application.scss:

@import "font-awesome-sprockets";
@import "font-awesome";

Validators

In order to provide the best possible experience to old and buggy browsers, Font Awesome uses CSS browser hacks in several places to target special CSS to certain browser versions in order to work around bugs in the browsers themselves. These hacks understandably cause CSS validators to complain that they are invalid. In a couple places, we also use bleeding-edge CSS features that aren't yet fully standardized, but these are used purely for progressive enhancement.

These validation warnings don't matter in practice since the non-hacky portion of our CSS does fully validate and the hacky portions don't interfere with the proper functioning of the non-hacky portion, hence why we deliberately ignore these particular warnings.

Getting started - Validators by Bootstrap Team is licensed under CC BY 3.0

Internet Explorer 8 and @font-face

IE8 has some issues with @font-face when combined with :before. Font Awesome uses that combination. If a page is cached, and loaded without the mouse over the window (i.e. hit the refresh button or load something in an iframe) then the page gets rendered before the font loads. Hovering over the page (body) will show some of the icons and hovering over the remaining icons will show those as well. See issue #954 for details.

Getting started - Internet Explorer 8 and @font-face by Bootstrap Team is licensed under CC BY 3.0

Need IE7 Support?

If you need IE7 support, you have my condolences. Really. Font Awesome doesn't support IE7, but an older version does. You'll need to check out the 3.2.1 instructions for using IE7. Then go complain to whoever decided your project needs IE7 support.

Troubleshooting

If you're having trouble with Font Awesome, make sure to check out the troubleshooting wiki page. Generously maintained by @gtagliala.

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