Font Awesome
An icon set you can drop into any page.
Font Awesome is taught here in 3 lessons, running from Installing Font Awesome through to Accessibility and performance trade-offs. Each lesson takes one topic, shows the working code, and links onward to the next, so the course can be read straight through in order.
| Track | Front-end Development |
| Lessons | 3 |
| Level | Beginner |
| Reading time | about 39 minutes |
| Prerequisites | Helpful, but not required: SVG |
Lessons
- Installing Font AwesomeThree ways to get the icons into a project — CDN, npm packages and hosted kits — and what each one costs you.
- Using, sizing and animating iconsThe class syntax, the three free styles, the sizing scale, fixed width and stacking, and the rotation and animation utilities.
- Accessibility and performance trade-offsDecorative versus meaningful icons, the labelling patterns that actually work, and what each delivery method costs in bytes and render time.
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FAQ
How long does the Font Awesome course take?
It has 3 lessons, about 39 minutes of reading. Expect roughly twice that if you type out and run every example.
Do I need prior experience for Font Awesome?
Not strictly. It helps to have read SVG first, because some lessons build on it, but every lesson explains its own assumptions.
What should I read after Font Awesome?
This is the last course in Front-end Development right now. Browse the other tracks from the courses index to go sideways.
Last refreshed 2026-09-18.