Using the Icon Wizard | Doing More with Font Awesome [Part 8]
Ready to make your own icons? In this screencast, we’ll show you how to use the Icon Wizard to stack, blend, and combine Font Awesome icons into custom creations.
From adding icons and modifiers to fine-tuning layers and saving your finished creation to a Kit, we’ll walk through everything you need to start conjuring up some custom icon magic.
🧠 What You’ll Learn in This Screencast
🧩 Add icons, modifiers, elements, and User Blender pieces as layers
🎨 Position, scale, rotate, and blend layers to build your icon
✨ Combine layers with Add, Subtract, and Stroke blend methods
🔀 Reorder, duplicate, and remove layers as you build
💾 Save your custom icon directly to a Font Awesome Kit
🚀 Use your saved icon in your projects just like any other Font Awesome icon
📥 Download your creation as an SVG or PNG
🔗 Share your custom icon with a public landing page
⌨️ Use keyboard shortcuts to nudge, resize, flip, center, and manage your layers
⏱ Timestamps
00:00 – What is the Icon Wizard?
00:15 – Get started
00:30 – Building an icon
01:43 – Saving & sharing your icon
02:27 – Outro
The Icon Wizard is currently a beta feature, so come play around, get creative, and let us know what you think.
🔗 Links & Resources
📚 Learn more about the Icon Wizard: [https://docs.fontawesome.com/web/add-icons/icon-wizard/v2]
✨ Conjure the Icon Wizard: [https://fontawesome.com/icons/wizard]