How can I edit Font Awesome (or include my own icons)?

Question

Font Awesome is fully open source, so how can I tweak some icons as I wish, or add new icons? Let\'s say my primary vector tool is Inkscape (open source GPL).

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Answer 1

If you want access to the raw svg and .png files, there is a git repo for that: Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG

Answer 2

As well as the solution mentioned (which is perfect), you can also subset and combine icon fonts using:

• icnfnt (officially supported subsetting of font-awesome icons - original .com now a dead link, but the github repo is still available)
• fontello.com (create a custom subset from a number of icon fonts that are widely available)

Answer 3

If you want some icons (or all) from font-awesome including yout custom svg icons you can:

1- Go to http://fontawesome.io/ Download the zip and extract-it for example in your Desktop.

2- Go to http://fontastic.me/ use your email to create an account.

3. Once you have been logged-in click on the header option: Add More Icons.

4. Select the SVG of font-awesome located in your extracted zip inside fonts.

5. Repeat the procces uploading your own svg files.

6. Inside Home (at the header of the page) Select the icons you want to download, customize them to give your custom names and select publish to have a link or download the fonts and css.

Sorry about my english ! :D

Answer 4

You can use icomoon. Browse to the library page and use FontAwesome, you can augment FontAwesome's libary with your custom icons in SVG.