Font Awesome with Swing

Question

Is it possible to use Font Awesome with swing applications? If possible then how to use its icons with swing components (JButton or JLabel). I've used Font Awesome earlier with my Primefaces application.

Answer 1

I would say "yes"...

• Download the zip package from Font Awesome
• Uncompress it
• Copy the fontawesome-webfont.ttf file to your project (in the below example, I used it as an embedded resource)
• Using the Cheeatsheet, copy and past the icon you want to use into your code
• Load the font and display...

For example...

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.FontFormatException;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;

public class TestFontAwsome {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new TestFontAwsome();
    }

    public TestFontAwsome() {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
                } catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
                }

                try (InputStream is = TestFontAwsome.class.getResourceAsStream("/fontawesome-webfont.ttf")) {
                    Font font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, is);
                    font = font.deriveFont(Font.PLAIN, 24f);

                    JLabel label = new JLabel("?");
                    label.setFont(font);

                    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
                    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                    frame.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
                    frame.add(label);
                    frame.pack();
                    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
                    frame.setVisible(true);
                } catch (IOException | FontFormatException exp) {
                    exp.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });
    }

}

You can also use the unicode directly, for example, the symbol in the above example is listed as  which could be used as...

 JLabel label = new JLabel("\uf0c0");

Answer 2

Try jIconFont (Swing or JavaFX) at http://jiconfont.github.io/

Example:

Icon icon = IconFontSwing.buildIcon(FontAwesome.SMILE_O, 40, new Color(0, 150, 0));

JLabel label = new JLabel(icon);