From the course: Making Your Site Retina-Ready
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Add your first icon font to your design
From the course: Making Your Site Retina-Ready
Add your first icon font to your design
- As you begin down the road to using these icon fonts, there are a few things we need to gather together first. You need to have the icon font in different formats, which you can make yourself, or use different services, such as Font Awesome. You need to have some CSS to control the font, and you need some HTML in your pages to insert it so that you can use it. Now luckily tons of the sites I showed you in the last video actually give that content to you. And you just kinda need to know where to put it. We're gonna use Font Awesome, just because it's one of the bigger ones out there. So go back to your browser and go to fontawesome.github.io, and I'm noticing this says fortawesome, which is great. And what we need to do first of all is download. Now hold on one second, there's two ways to work with a lot of these. Font Awesome is so big that you could download, which I've already done here. And what it'll do is if you do download, why don't you go ahead and do that, click download…
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