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The 'best way' to use FontAwesome? I only need 2 or 3 icons!

3 replies · Started by Henry on April 10, 2019

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April 10, 2019 at 4:24 pm #865509

Hi, I understand that fontawesome loads too much overhead right?

I just need 2 or 3 icons and I'm pretty sure that you can create a tiny file to just use those icons.

My question is: how do I go about loading these font files (correctly) into GP?

Thanks

April 10, 2019 at 4:46 pm #865534

Definitely, Font Awesome is huge.

You could use a tool like https://icomoon.io/

That allows you to build your own "font" with only the icons you use, which you can include in your child theme using @font-face.

Alternatively, you can just use inline SVGs for your icons.

April 10, 2019 at 6:13 pm #865563

very interesting...thanks a ton.

Best thing about GP so far is:

- community
- ease of use
- hooks... < v nice useful feature...

April 11, 2019 at 8:11 am #866278

No problem!

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it :)

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