Css – FontAwesome not available as a font-family

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This is undoubtedly me doing something really dumb, but I can't see it. I'm trying to use FontAwesome as a font-family in my css, but it doesn't seem to be working.

With minimal code, I have:

<head>
    <link href="assets/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <style>
        body {
            font-family: FontAwesome;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    Test FontAwesome!
</body>

This is showing up as clearly Times New Roman.

The FontAwesome font itself is stored in assets/font/, and font-awesome.css has the following @font-face defined:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'FontAwesome';
  src: url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=3.0.1');
  src: url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix&v=3.0.1') format('embedded-opentype'),
    url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=3.0.1') format('woff'),
    url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=3.0.1') format('truetype');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

Changing the .. to assets gives an obvious error that it can't find the font, so I'm pretty sure the relative pathing is just fine and dandy. If I change it to font-family: FontAwesome,Arial;, it uses Arial. Clearly, it can't find FontAwesome and I don't know why.

Any particular reason why I'm not able to change my body font to FontAwesome?

Best Answer

Much better is use this:

<head>

<!-- fonts awesome -->

<link href='http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.min.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

</head>

In your stylesheet use only for example: 

#post-title a:before {

    font-family: FontAwesome;
    content: "\f0c4";

}

No less, no more :))))

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