Line Awesome - Best Alternative of Font Awesome with Rich Icon Fonts
Line Awesome is a stylish Font Awesome Alternative with popular and rich collection of icon fonts.
As a web developer and Blogger you are used to use Font
Awesome icon. Definitely Font Awesome icons are awesome, but if you compare
both Line Awesome and Font Awesome then you will get some advance benefit from Line
Awesome. However both are handy for
improving our web design and development. Line Awesome features icon fonts that contain symbols
and pictographs. And it can be style and decorate with CSS coding.
Benefits of Line Awesome
There are some benefits that will give you more priority to
Line Awesome over Font Awesome. Let's see it below-
- Line Awesome icons easily modifiable in order to be read by screen readers which provides for accessibility according to W3C guidelines.
- Line Awesome's icon fonts contain clear line icons. In contrast, Font Awesome instead of clear lines, they are composed of a solid fill.
- It compatible with almost all browsers, even it works with Internet Explorer 4.
- Another feature of Line Awesome is “plug and play” that requires a few lines of code in order to work on webpage.
- Line Awesome icon fonts are made of vectors that can respond to CSS styling such as colors and size among other enhancing features.
- In CSS styling it eliminates the use of multiple images to achieve various interactive effects.
- It can load faster than Font Awesome and reduce file size on webpage.
- Line Awesome icons can be used in 32x32 px grid, while Font Awesome might start with 14x14 px.
- It can utilize every pixel in the screen, Simply we can say it Pixel perfect.
- Line Awesome icons can be easily resize without losing elegant look.
How to Integrate Line Awesome in Blogger Template?
This is quite easy to integrate Line Awesome on Blogger
template. If you are using Font Awesome then you can add Line Font Awesome
easily.
Step #1: Go
to https://www.blogger.com and Sign in to your account
Step #2: From Blogger
Dashboard click on ->Template ->Edit HTML
Step #3: And
locate the <head> section in your Blogger template
Step #4: Finally
copy following line of markup and paste it below <head>
<link href='//maxcdn.icons8.com/fonts/line-awesome/css/line-awesome.min.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
Step #5: Now simply hit the Save template from the top.
Congratulation! you have successfully
integrated Line Awesome in your Blogger template.
Line Awesome Icon Cheatsheet
Generally all pictographic icon display
according to icon code. Font Awesome user already aware about this that we have
to use code from a list of icon code. Similarly incase of Line Awesome we have
to use icon code. You can grab the all code by visiting below URL.
- https://icons8.com/line-awesome
After landing on the site Just click on any
icon and you will explore the icon code easily.
How to use Line Awesome in Blogger Template?
This is a
good question that after integrating Line Awesome file, how we can use it in
our Blogger template?
we can
write Line awesome in Blogger template file by Edit HTML and alternatively we
can write it in Blog Post on "HTML" View. However for Resizing and
coloring we must use CSS script.
All Line
Awesome icons writing are similar to Font Awesome. It start with la and in case of Font Awesome we use fa. You can have a look at below
example of Line Awesome icon code. This code will show Bull Horn.
<i class="la la-bullhorn"></i>
For placing
icons in a list style we can write it like below
<ul class="la-ul">
<li style="text-align: left;"><i class="la la-adjust"></i>Adjust Icon</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><i class="la la-anchor"></i>AnchorIcon</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><i class="la la-balance-scale"></i>Balance Icon</li>
</ul>
The above
icon set will display in default size. but if you wish to increase the icon
size then you can add a simple CSS script like below.
Here I have added font size 22px. So Line Awesome icons will now become bigger.
<style>
.la-ul{font-size:22px;}
</style>
<ul class="la-ul">
<li style="text-align: left;"><i class="la la-adjust"></i>Adjust Icon</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><i class="la la-anchor"></i>AnchorIcon</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><i class="la la-balance-scale"></i>Balance Icon</li>
</ul>
Here I have added font size 22px. So Line Awesome icons will now become bigger.
How to add color on Line Awesome Icons?
I will show
you how to add color in Line Awesome icon. for your convenience I will use same
code.
<style>
.la-ul{font-size:22px; color:#0BBE46}
</style>
<ul class="la-ul">
<li style="text-align: left;"><i class="la la-adjust"></i>Adjust Icon</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><i class="la la-anchor"></i>AnchorIcon</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><i class="la la-balance-scale"></i>Balance Icon</li>
</ul>
How to add Line Awesome Icon in Horizontal style with Fixed Width?
If you wish
to add Line awesome icons in horizontal style with fixed with then you can
write it like below.
<div class="list-group">
<a class="list-group-item" href="#"><i class="la la-home la-lw"></i> Home</a>
<a class="list-group-item" href="#"><i class="la la-book la-lw"></i> Library</a>
<a class="list-group-item" href="#"><i class="la la-pencil la-lw"></i> Applications</a>
<a class="list-group-item" href="#"><i class="la la-cog la-lw"></i>Settings</a>
</div>
I hope you
have got a clear idea about using Line awesome in your Blog. Many web developer
give prefer on Line Awesome, even they are using this in many Web applications.
You will find many popular web
application like iOS 10, Windows 8, Windows 10, Android 4 icons in Line
Awesome.
Definitely
you will love it for crispy and shiny icons in your website. Additionaly if you are interested to work with
large icon liek 32px X 32px then Line Awesome looks great.
Thank you for sharing such a nice and interesting blog with us. Hope it might be much useful for us. keep on updating...!!
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Hi, thank you for your review! We are happy that you found Line Awesome useful:)
Hi Anastasia Grebneva, You are most welcome. I hope this review will help my Blog readers. And they will able to use "Line Awesome" in their Blogger Template.
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Hi Jeffy, thanks for your honest feedback. :up
Thanks For This. How to I add font like Your site.
Hi There,I use Font Awesome and my Main font is Roboto Condensed. You Can folloe tutorial from below
http://www.bloggerspice.com/2015/11/What-is-new-in-the-latest-version-Font-Awesome-4.5.html
http://www.bloggerspice.com/2014/11/How-to-use-custom-Google-font-in-website.html
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Sorry bro, am confused on how to add those colour codes where put those codes? or we just add below head?
Help me steps to follow
Hi Franktz, You have to add the color code before b:skin or you can wrap the script inside
<style>
CSS Script
</style>
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