Add custom icons to font awesome

Question

I love the Font Awesome icon font and want to use it for most of the icons on my site but there are a few custom svg icons that I'd need in addition to what's offered.

I noticed that the .svg version of Font Awesome is composed mostly of these <glyph /> elements:

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Would it be effective to take my svg icon code, paste it in as a new glyph element and assign an unused unicode char?

Answer 1

Give Icomoon a try. You can upload your own SVGs, add them to the library, then create a custom font combining FontAwesome with your own icons.