Font Awesome Extension for Quarto

This extension provides support including free icons provided by Font Awesome. Icons can be used in both HTML (via Font Awesome 6 Free) and PDF (via the fontawesome5 LaTeX package).

Installing

quarto add quarto-ext/fontawesome

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you're using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

Do note that this extension requires quarto 1.2.198 or higher. We strongly recommend you ensure you're running a recent version of quarto, and download/install one from the download page if needed.

Using

To embed an icon, use the {{< fa >}} shortcode. For example:

{{< fa thumbs-up >}} 
{{< fa folder >}}
{{< fa chess-pawn >}}
{{< fa brands bluetooth >}}
{{< fa brands twitter size=2xl >}}
{{< fa brands github size=5x >}}
{{< fa battery-half size=Huge >}}
{{< fa envelope title="An envelope" >}}

This extension includes support for only free Font Awesome icons (there are roughly 2,000 free icons, while the complete set of Pro icons consists of more than 16,000). You can browse all of the available free icons here:

https://fontawesome.com/search?m=free

Brands¹

Note that there is a brands prefix used within the bluetooth example above. If you choose an icon from the brands collection, you will need to add a brands collection specifier when using any HTML format. For example, if you search the free icons for "github" and then click on the github icon, you'll see this as the suggested HTML to embed the icon:

<i class="fa-brands fa-github"></i>

The fa-brands indicates that the icon is in the brands collection. To use this with Quarto just add the brands collection prefix as follows:

{{< fa brands github >}}

Sizing Icons

Font Awesome provides relative and literal sizing for icons as described in https://fontawesome.com/docs/web/style/size.
When the size is invalid, no size changes are made.

• Relative sizing¹: {{< fa battery-half size=2xl >}}.

  Relative Sizing Class	Font Size	Equivalent in Pixels
  fa-2xs	0.625em	10px
  fa-xs	0.75em	12px
  fa-sm	0.875em	14px
  fa-lg	1.25em	20px
  fa-xl	1.5em	24px
  fa-2xl	2em	32px

• Literal sizing¹: {{< fa battery-half size=5x >}}.

  Literal Sizing Class	Font Size
  fa-1x	1em
  fa-2x	2em
  fa-3x	3em
  fa-4x	4em
  fa-5x	5em
  fa-6x	6em
  fa-7x	7em
  fa-8x	8em
  fa-9x	9em
  fa-10x	10em

• LaTeX sizing: {{< fa battery-half size=Huge >}}.

  Sizing Command	Font Size (LaTeX)	Font Size (HTML)
  tiny (= \tiny)	5pt	0.5em
  scriptsize (= \scriptsize)	7pt	0.7em
  footnotesize (= \footnotesize)	8pt	0.8em
  small (= \small)	9pt	0.9em
  normalsize (= \normalsize)	10pt (document size)	1em
  large (= \large)	12pt	1.25em
  Large (= \Large)	14.4pt	1.5em
  LARGE (= \LARGE)	17.28pt	1.75em
  huge (= \huge)	20.74pt	2em
  Huge (= \Huge)	24.88pt	2.5em

Accessibility¹

If the icon is being used in place of some text, just add some descriptive text in the title argument:

{{< fa envelope title="An envelope" >}}

This will produce the following HTML:

<i class="fa-solid fa-envelope" title="An envelope" aria-hidden="true"></i>

More details on Font Awesome accessibility at https://fontawesome.com/docs/web/dig-deeper/accessibility.

Example

Here is the source code for a minimal example: example.qmd.

This is the output of example.qmd for HTML and PDF.

Footnotes

1. HTML formats only. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴