Selecting the correct Font Awesome style/weight/variant
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 2:16 pm
For the most part, I have gotten Font Awesome working correctly, and in both PDF and HTML5 outputs. However, when it comes to selecting the correct style/variant, I'm stuck--and not only in Flare.
Here's how I insert an Font Awesome glyph in Flare:
1. In the app, I right-click on the FA glyph being used and select Inspect. I note which glyph it is.
2. I go to the Font Awesome website, find the glyph, and copy its Unicode value,
3. In Flare, when my cursor is where I want to inset the glyph, I go to Insert > Insert Character > Insert Character.
4. In the Font drop-down list, I select Font Awesome 5 Pro. (I have to scroll down a couple of times to get to it.)
5. In the Search box, I paste the Unicode character value, then click the Search icon.
6. I click the character to select it.
7. I click Insert.
8. I click Close.
Thing is, Font Awesome has several variants, all of which are installed on my computer and all are visible in the Fonts settings. The two I'm primarily concerned with are the Solid and Regular ones. The latter is an outline and the former a filled version of the same glyph.
In Flare, I sometimes get the filled in version when I want the outline version. The Unicode value is the same; the only difference is in the font variant. And I am not able to figure out how, in Flare (or in Word, for that matter), to select different variants of the same font.
Font Awesome's help shows how it's done in Sketch (https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-t ... -ligatures), but the options that I see there I do not see in Flare. Anyone know how do do this?
Here's how I insert an Font Awesome glyph in Flare:
1. In the app, I right-click on the FA glyph being used and select Inspect. I note which glyph it is.
2. I go to the Font Awesome website, find the glyph, and copy its Unicode value,
3. In Flare, when my cursor is where I want to inset the glyph, I go to Insert > Insert Character > Insert Character.
4. In the Font drop-down list, I select Font Awesome 5 Pro. (I have to scroll down a couple of times to get to it.)
5. In the Search box, I paste the Unicode character value, then click the Search icon.
6. I click the character to select it.
7. I click Insert.
8. I click Close.
Thing is, Font Awesome has several variants, all of which are installed on my computer and all are visible in the Fonts settings. The two I'm primarily concerned with are the Solid and Regular ones. The latter is an outline and the former a filled version of the same glyph.
In Flare, I sometimes get the filled in version when I want the outline version. The Unicode value is the same; the only difference is in the font variant. And I am not able to figure out how, in Flare (or in Word, for that matter), to select different variants of the same font.
Font Awesome's help shows how it's done in Sketch (https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-t ... -ligatures), but the options that I see there I do not see in Flare. Anyone know how do do this?