Font Awesome has a very good collection of icons to be used in web projects. I want to use one of those icons as cursor (custom cursor).
In my understanding, Custom Cursors need an image url, but I am unable to find the image urls for Font Awesome icons.
Got it!
And I made a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rqq8B/2/
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13761472/how-to-render-glyphs-from-fontawesome-on-a-canvas-element
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13932291/css-cursor-using-data-uri
$(function() {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = 24;
canvas.height = 24;
//document.body.appendChild(canvas);
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle = "#000000";
ctx.font = "24px FontAwesome";
ctx.textAlign = "center";
ctx.textBaseline = "middle";
ctx.fillText("\uf002", 12, 12);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL('image/png')
$('body').css('cursor', 'url('+dataURL+'), auto');
});
body {
position: fixed;
left: 0;
right: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.3/jquery.min.js"></script>