danglevm/latex-fontawesome5

Bindings for FontAwesome 5 icons to be used in XeLaTeX.

latex-fontawesome5

Original project is furl's latex-fontawesome. I edited this project to use latest FontAwesome icons in XeLaTeX.

The current version of FontAwesome icons used is 5.0.2.

How to Use

Requirements

• You must have the FontAwesome font on your machine (download from here).
• You must be using XeLaTeX and have the fontspec package installed.
• You can use this package with the free and the pro fonts.
• For using the pro features, you need to buy Font Awesome Pro.

Usage

1. Download the fontawesome5.sty file and put it in the same directory as the LaTeX file using the icons.
2. Exctract the .otf files (use-on-desktop directory inside the downloaded zip) into the font directory in the same directory as the LaTeX file using the icons.
3. Include the package as normal (in the preamble of the .tex file, add the line \usepackage{fontawesome5}).
4. Use an icon by typing \faicon{address-book}. Other icons than address-book can be found on the fontawesome website.

Example

Free version

\usepackage{fontawesome5}

\faicon{font-awesome}
Normal: \faicon{address-book}
Bold: \textbf{\faicon{address-book}}

$ xelatex example-free.tex

Pro version

\usepackage[pro]{fontawesome5}

\faicon{font-awesome}
Normal: \faicon{alarm-clock}
Bold: \textbf{\faicon{alarm-clock}}
Italic: \textit{\faicon{alarm-clock}}

$ xelatex example-pro.tex

Make Latest fontawesome.sty

Requirements

• You need python to create fontawesome5.sty from scratch.
• Download FontAwesome from [here](https://fontawesome.com/ and exctact the zip file into fontawesome next to the create_sty.py file.

Usage

$ python create_sty.py

This should result in the creation of latest fontawesome5.sty

Contact

You are free to modify it. If you have any questions, feel free to join me.

Good luck!