How to see glyphs (and use Font Awesome)?

[cmscss]

Hi There,

Font Awesome (the icon font) works in Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign but not XD - is there a trick to getting it to work with XD?

Also, does XD have a Glyphs panel? If not, a Glyphs panel is kind of mandatory, may I please request one?

Cheers

Ben

[CoreyRLucier · Accepted solution]

The font seems to be working just fine for me. 

I followed the instructions here - Font Awesome: How to use Font Awesome icons in Photoshop or Illustrator – Iftakhar's Web Design/Deve... e.g. Selectively grabbed the icons I wanted from - Font Awesome Cheatsheet .

There is no glyphs panel just yet. Can you per chance add a vote to this feature request? Glyphs Palette – Adobe XD Feedback : Feature Requests & Bugs

[rizkysyazuli]

i got an annoyingly large bounding box when i pasted an icon into XD. anyone experiencing the same thing?

[bg_s]

You have to import 'font-awesome' fonts into your system Fonts folder.

Windows: Control Panel -> Fonts

Mac: ~/Library/Fonts/

[blairs24864215]

Be sure to select regular or solid next to your font size in XD.

[Grafiker37]

make sure there is no kerning. i.e. the AV symbol must be 0

[shamburgerland]

OMG I wish I would have found this solution sooner. I've been uninstalling, reinstalling, restarting my computer and searching for a solution for longer than I'd like to admit! THANKYOU!

[-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-]

This right here is the MVP answer I was looking for.

For future visitors here's my workflow:

• Add font to Fontbook
• Copy correct glyph from FA website; free license is either solid or regular weight
• Paste into XD text area
• Ensure font is set to Font Awesome 6 Free and the weight is set appropriately (depending on what glyph you copied)

[Edu Couchez]

Oh!... only those four steps? Really, we XD users complain about any insignificance.

Anyway... left Font Awesome behind many years ago, when I saw there wouldn’t be any solution to that. Now simply copy paste the glyph converted to curves and paste right at the text’s side. It's a waste of time of course, but hey, there are still worst things on XD that makes burn your time (and patience) multiplied by 1000.

[Edu Couchez]

Hey! 6 year in the future... not yet, nothing.

Yet another nightmare is adding glyphs... not supported visualization on XD, so I've to copy-paste blindingly from Illustrator or preconvert them to curves.

Definitivelly, an absolutelly BETA version after six years

[trashcaneron]

Ditto, thanks for the recommendation !