Dynamic Font Awesome Cheat Sheet

Dynamic Font Awesome Cheat Sheet

Font Awesome is a popular icon library that provides scalable vector icons via CSS classes, enabling easy integration into web projects without images. It offers thousands of icons for common UI elements like arrows, social media, and symbols, loaded via CDN or locally. This dynamic cheat sheet displays Font Awesome icons in a grid, showing each icon with its class name for quick reference. Built with modern frameworks like Vue or Angular, it could loop through an icons array to generate the layout reactively. I created this tool for personal reference, consolidating icons in one place, and even printed it as a large poster on a plotter at work for easy desk access.

What is Font Awesome?

Font Awesome, developed by Dave Gandy, is a comprehensive icon toolkit for web and app development. Icons are added using <i class="fa fa-icon-name"></i>, with options for size, color, and animation. It’s free for most uses, with a Pro version for premium icons.

Used in:

  • Web design for buttons, navigation.
  • Blogs and CMS for visual elements.
  • Mobile apps via frameworks like React Native.

Its vector nature ensures crisp scaling.

Generating the Reference Guide with Vue or Angular

Modern frameworks simplify dynamic lists. In Vue:

<div id="app">
  <div v-for="icon in icons" class="icon-item">
    <i :class="'fa fa-3x fa-' + icon"></i>
    <span>fa-{{ icon }}</span>
  </div>
</div>

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
    icons: ['glass', 'music', 'search', ...]
  }
});

Angular uses *ngFor:

<div *ngFor="let icon of icons" class="icon-item">
  <i class="fa fa-3x" [ngClass]="'fa-' + icon"></i>
  <span>fa-{{ icon }}</span>
</div>

These frameworks handle rendering, allowing easy updates or filtering.

Personal Use and Printing

I built this for quick icon lookup during development. Printing as a 24x36 poster provided a physical reference, useful before digital tools. The grid layout with class names made it practical for both screen and print.

Benefits

Font Awesome cheat sheets aid productivity. Frameworks like Vue/Angular make them interactive, with search or categories. This demo shows how simple code creates valuable developer tools.

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