Make Font Awesome icons in a circle?

Question

I am using font awesome on some project but I have some things that I want to do with font awesome icons, I can easily call an icon like this:

Answer 1

i.fa {
  display: inline-block;
  border-radius: 60px;
  box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #888;
  padding: 0.5em 0.6em;

}

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JsFiddle of old answer: http://fiddle.jshell.net/4LqeN/