How to Enhance Your Website with Iconography

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Modern web design must incorporate icons. They can be utilised to improve a website’s visual appeal, ease of use, and effective communication of key information.

Let me take you step-by-step through the process of adding icons to your HTML code.

Step 1: Select an Icon Library you want to use

There are various free and paid icon libraries that are available online. These libraries offer a wide range of icons in various styles and formats.

Some Free Icon Libraries available are:

1. Font Awesome
2. Material Icons
3. Ionicons
4. Feather Icons
5. Bootstrap Icons
6. Remix Icon
7. Heroicons
8. Simple Line Icons

Some Paid Icon Libraries available are:

1. Noun Project
2. Iconfinder
3. Flaticon
4. Icons8
5. Streamline Icons
6. The Iconic
7. IcoMoon
8. IconJar

Your website can be made more appealing by including animated icons. The following are a few free animated icon libraries:

1. LottieFiles
2. loading.io
3. Icons8
4. Animaticons
5. SpinKit

Step 2: Add the link to the Icon Library that you are using

The next step is to link to the icon library you’ve selected in your HTML code. This can be done by including a link tag in the HTML document’s head section.

Eg: Check the below code for using

Font Awesome Library using the CDN (Content Delivery Network) link.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css">

Material Icons Library using the CDN (Content Delivery Network) link.

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons" rel="stylesheet">

Ionicons Library using the CDN (Content Delivery Network) link.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ionicons@5.5.2/dist/css/ionicons.min.css">

Step 3: Choose an Icon and Add it to Your HTML Code

As you have now linked the icon libraray, select an icon you want to add it to your HTML code.

Eg: Check the below code for using

For adding Font Awesome Icon

<i class="fas fa-user"></i>

For adding Material Icons

<i class="material-icons">home</i>

For adding Ionicons Icon

 <i class="icon ion-md-search"></i>

You can easily add icons to your HTML code and modify them to suit your needs.

eg: For Font Awesome Icon

<i class="fas fa-home" style="color: red;"></i>

Icons can also be added to buttons and links. Here’s an example: For Font Awesome Icon

<button>
  <i class="fas fa-search"></i> 
    Search
</button>

Icons play an important role in web design and can improve your website’s visual appeal, user experience, and friendliness. I hope, you should be able to understand how to add icons with the help of this blog.

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