FontAwesome.swift

Use Font Awesome in your Swift projects

Installation

CocoaPods

To integrate FontAwesome into your Xcode project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile:

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!

pod 'FontAwesome.swift'

Then, run the following command:

$ pod install

And add import FontAwesome_swift to the top of the files using FontAwesome.

Carthage

To integrate FontAwesome into your Xcode project using Carthage, specify it in your Cartfile:

github "thii/FontAwesome.swift" >= 0.4.1

Then add import FontAwesome to the top of the files using FontAwesome.

Manually

• Drag and drop FontAwesome.otf and all Swift files into your project

Examples

FontAwesome icon in label

label.font = UIFont.fontAwesomeOfSize(200)
label.text = String.fontAwesomeIconWithName(FontAwesome.Github)

FontAwesome icon in label from css class name

label.font = UIFont.fontAwesomeOfSize(200)
label.text = String.fontAwesomeIconWithCode("fa-github")

FontAwesome icon in button

button.titleLabel?.font = UIFont.fontAwesomeOfSize(30)
button.setTitle(String.fontAwesomeIconWithName(.Github), forState: .Normal)

FontAwesome icon as navigation bar item

let attributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.fontAwesomeOfSize(20)] as Dictionary!
leftBarButton.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, forState: .Normal)
leftBarButton.title = String.fontAwesomeIconWithName(.Github)

FontAwesome icon as toolbar item

let attributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.fontAwesomeOfSize(20)] as Dictionary!
toolbarItem.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, forState: .Normal)
toolbarItem.title = String.fontAwesomeIconWithName(.Github)

FontAwesome icon as an image

tabBarItem.image = UIImage.fontAwesomeIconWithName(.Github, textColor: UIColor.blackColor(), size: CGSizeMake(30, 30))

FontAwesome icon as an image with background color

tabBarItem.image = UIImage.fontAwesomeIconWithName(FontAwesome.Github, textColor: UIColor.blueColor(), size: CGSizeMake(4000, 4000), backgroundColor: UIColor.redColor())

Requirements

iOS 8 or later.

License

• FontAwesome.otf file licensed under SIL OFL 1.1
• FontAwesome.swift licensed under MIT