Swift Font Awesome

Swift Font Awesome is a Swift extension for NSString. Easily use the icons from Font Awesome in your Swift project.

Features

• Enums for all of the icons, insert icons quick and easy with autocomplete
• Use the class names from the Font Awesome website
• Updated to Font Awesome version 4.2.0

Requirements

• iOS 7.0+ / Mac OS X 10.9+
• Xcode 6.1

Installation

You have to include the FontAwesome.ttf font-file (download here) and include it in your project. Then add the file to the Fonts provided by application key in your projects' plist file. Then add NSString+FontAwesome.swift to your project.

Usage

Create a UI element as per usual and set Font Awesome as it's font

var label = UILabel()
label.font = UIFont(name: "FontAwesome", size: 16.0)

Assign an icon as the label's text using an enum

label.text = NSString().fontAwesomeIconStringForEnum(.FAGithub)

Assign an icon as the label's text using it's classname

label.text = NSString().fontAwesomeIconStringForIconClassName("fa-github")

Font Awesome

Learn more about Font Awesome on it's website

Creator

• Melvin Beemer (@melvinbeemer)

License

Swift Font Awesome is available under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

Please note that Font Awesome has it's own license.