Font awesome is not showing icon

Question

I am using Font Awesome and do not wish to add CSS with HTTP. I downloaded Font Awesome and included it in my code, yet Font Awesome is showing a bordered square box instead

Answer 1

In my case i made the following mistake in my css code.

*{
    font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif !important;
}

This will override all font family rules for the entire page. My solution was to move the code to body like so.

body{
    font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}

NB: Whenever you use the !important flag in css, any other css rule declared of the same type on the same element will get overriden.