Usage # import 'package:font_awesome_flutter/font_awesome_flutter.dart' In the dependencies: section of your pubspec.yaml, add the following line: dependencies:
#FLAT ICONS PRO#
If you have purchased the pro icons and want to enable support for them, please see the instructions below.
#FLAT ICONS FREE#
This icon pack includes only the free icons offered by Font Awesome out-of-the-box.
#FLAT ICONS HOW TO#
In my next post I’ll provide some tips on how to build your own flat icons into an icon font library.The free Font Awesome Icon pack availableĪs set of Flutter Icons - based on font awesome version 6.2.1. You can either create these from scratch or use existing icons and customize them to suit your design purposes. If you really want to make your new application stand out, one option worth considering is developing your own custom icon library. What about creating your own icon-font library? If you’re using an application and you have to think hard about what a particular icon means, it’s clear the developer has not nailed the user experience. You can see this in many applications where an icon bears no relation to the idea it’s intended to communicate to the user. There are also limits to the variety of flat icons available in the popular icon libraries. Yes, there’s that element of immediate recognition for your users, but there’s also the potential that your stuff will start looking like every other web site or app out there. On the other hand, there are a few potential drawbacks to using some of the well-known font libraries for your web or mobile applications. These “universal” font icons can easily be integrated into your own applications, making them instantly more intuitive. Think of the now standard menu icon, which resembles a hamburger (three horizontal lines). Well-known font libraries (like FontAwesome) are widely used and have even contributed to the standardization of symbols used to represent specific functions. Most of the websites or applications today that integrate flat design principles also use font-icon libraries.
#FLAT ICONS PORTABLE#
Best of all from a UX perspective, font icons typically have smaller file sizes, so they load much more quickly than image icons, which is a great advantage for portable devices. And if you haven’t bought in a hundred percent to flat design principles (maybe you believe we have reached “peak flat”), you can add shadows, transparencies, and so on. With CSS you can easily change the color of an icon or rotate the text.
They can also be modified by making simple CSS changes, in the same way that you would use CSS to modify the way text looks on the screen. For example, since they are vector-based graphics, they scale very easily without losing image quality. So flat icons that are a single color provide some key advantages to the web application developer. Obviously this can have a negative impact on the user experience, particularly when an application is being viewed on a mobile device. They don’t scale up very well (becoming noticeably less crisp as you make them larger), and they also make pages slower to load, especially when multiple image icons are used. The need for responsiveness is a big reason why image icons are falling out of favor. So the content of an application has to adapt or be responsive to the various screen sizes of laptops, tablets, and smartphones (“design once” approach regardless of screen size). Today most applications are being used on multiple devices, which means developers have to make their applications “responsive”. Icon-fonts, as their name suggests, represent icons on the screen using a font rather than using an individual image file, like a PNG or a JPG. Think FontAwesome or Bootstrap Glyphicons. The rise of flat design has also led to the popularity of icon-fonts. Because no matter how aesthetically pleasing your application, what matters ultimately are the benefits it provides to the end user. With flat design, the theory goes, graphical clutter is swept away and the user can rightly focus on using the application to be entertained, or to accomplish some important task. What exactly is flat design? By favoring two-dimensional graphical elements without any embellishments (shadows, bezels, embossing, color gradients, etc.), flat design principles remove potentially distracting elements from the mix that (some would argue) serve no functional purpose for the end user. In fact it’s become so popular among developers that if we’re not there yet, we may well be approaching “peak flat” (an oxymoron if ever there was one!). In the world of web and mobile application development, the use of minimalist or “flat” design principles has reached a fever pitch.
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