How To Add Icons

You can place Font Awesome icons just about anywhere, and we've tried to make it so that icons will take on the characteristics and blend in with surrounding text naturally.

We'll cover the basics of how to add icons to your project, shorthand class names for different icon styles, how to add icons to HTML, using icons aliases, and more!

Basics

To add an icon, you need to know a few bits of information:

1. The shorthand class name for the style you want to use
2. The icon name, prefixed with fa- (meaning "Font Awesome" naturally!)
3. The shorthand class name for the family you want to use (the default is the Classic family if you don't include a family class)

So to add an icon to your HTML, you just add an element with that classes to your page. Here's an example:

<i class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-user"></i>

<!--
 In the example above, you add...
1. `fa-solid` class for Solid style
2. `user` icon with the `fa-` prefix
3. `fa-sharp` class for Sharp family
... and you'll see the Sharp Solid User icon
-->

We designed Font Awesome for use with inline elements, and we recommend that you stick with a consistent element in your project. We recommend using <i> element and you'll add CSS classes for the for the Font Awesome family and style of icon you want to use and the icon name class with the fa- prefix for the icon you want to use.

If you want to avoid using the i tag, you can use a <span> element instead of <i>. Here's that same example using a span tag:

<!-- You can use a <span> element, with classes applied in the same way -->
<span class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-user"></span>

Families + Styles

Font Awesome contains many icon packs each with its own visual look and collection of families and styles. Below you'll find all our families and styles listed with the classes and other info you need to add icons to your projects.

Classic

Duotone

Sharp

Sharp Duotone

Brands

Chisel

Etch

Graphite

Jelly

Mosaic

Notdog

Pixel

Slab

Thumbprint

Utility

Vellum

Whiteboard

Kit-Based Custom Icons

If you're using a Font Awesome Kit and have added custom icons.

Setting Different Families + Styles

Here are some examples that show different styles and families of icons:

<!-- icon rendered across the Classic family (Classic is set by default) -->
<i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-regular fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-light fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-thin fa-user"></i>

<!-- icon rendered across the Classic family (Classic is set explicitly) -->
<i class="fa-classic fa-solid fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-classic fa-regular fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-classic fa-light fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-classic fa-thin fa-user"></i>

<!-- icon rendered across the Duotone family -->
<i class="fa-duotone fa-solid fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-duotone fa-regular fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-duotone fa-light fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-duotone fa-thin fa-user"></i>

<!-- icon rendered across the Sharp family -->
<i class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-sharp fa-regular fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-sharp fa-light fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-sharp fa-thin fa-user"></i>

<!-- icon rendered across the Sharp Duotone family -->
<i class="fa-sharp-duotone fa-solid fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-sharp-duotone fa-regular fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-sharp-duotone fa-light fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-sharp-duotone fa-thin fa-user"></i>

<!-- icon rendered across Small Batch families -->
<i class="fa-chisel fa-regular fa-user"></i>

<i class="fa-etch fa-solid fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-jelly fa-regular fa-user"></i>

<i class="fa-jelly-fill fa-regular fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-jelly-duo fa-regular fa-user"></i>

<i class="fa-notdog fa-solid fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-notdog-duo fa-solid fa-user"></i>

<i class="fa-slab fa-regular fa-user"></i>
<i class="fa-slab-press fa-regular fa-user"></i>

<i class="fa-thumbprint fa-light fa-user"></i>

<i class="fa-whiteboard fa-semibold fa-user"></i>

<!-- Font Awesome Brands icon -->
<i class="fa-brands fa-font-awesome"></i>

Aliases

Since v6, we've updated many of our icon names to make them more universal and consistent. But if you're a v5 or earlier user, we wanted to make sure not to break your existing code. So we made aliases for renamed icons to allow them to work with either the old or new names.

And you can use the old or new name for styles as well. So you can still use fas, far, fal, fad, and fab. And we've also included older prefix versions for our new Thin style (fat) and new Sharp family of styles (Sharp Solid is fass while Sharp Regular is fasr).

<!-- All of these code snippets will render the same Solid icon thanks to aliases. -->
<i class="fa-solid fa-cutlery"></i>
<i class="fa-solid fa-utensils"></i>
<i class="fas fa-utensils"></i>

<!-- All of these code snippets will render the same Sharp Solid icon thanks to aliases. -->
<i class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-times"></i>
<i class="fa-sharp fa-solid fa-close"></i>
<i class="fass fa-xmark"></i>

Alternate Ways to Add Icons

We also have many other ways to add Font Awesome icons, in case your situation calls for something specific:

When using Web Fonts

• Add icons using just CSS with pseudo-elements.

When using SVGs

• Use SVGs without JS using our SVG Sprites
• Bring-Your-Own style with our bare SVGs
• Use SVG symbols to improve performance with repeating icons
• Use an Icon's Unicode value
• Use an Icon's name

In Other Integrations

• In Vue
• In React
• In WordPress
• In Squarespace
• With SCSS
• ... and more! Check out the Integrations section for all the options.