Bare SVGs on the Web

You can add icons as bare SVGs into your markup, but you’ll need to do some heavy lifting to get them to fit in.

SVG Formats

Font Awesome provides SVG assets in two different formats:

Format	What’s the difference?	Impact on Rendering
Cropped	SVG `viewbox` `width` and `height` are cropped to the edges of the interior symbol.	Icons will only take up as much space as their dimensions need.
Full	SVG `viewbox` `width` and `height` are set to a standard square based on the Icon Canvas	Icons will be rendered at a consistent width with surrounding whitespace.

Basic Use

With the power of vectors, the browser can draw an SVG in no time flat. Just add the SVG code straight into your HTML.

Optionally, you can add accessibility hints via aria attributes, or leave out the xmlns attribute which is optional in HTML5 documents.

What time is it…

<div class="time-to-get-ill">
  <style>
    .icon {
      width: 1em;
      height: 1em;
      vertical-align: -0.125em;
    }
  </style>
  What time is it...
  <svg class="icon" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 512 512">
    <path
      d="M256 8C119 8 8 119 8 256s111 248 248 248 248-111 248-248S393 8 256 8zm0 448c-110.5 0-200-89.5-200-200S145.5 56 256 56s200 89.5 200 200-89.5 200-200 200zm61.8-104.4l-84.9-61.7c-3.1-2.3-4.9-5.9-4.9-9.7V116c0-6.6 5.4-12 12-12h32c6.6 0 12 5.4 12 12v141.7l66.8 48.6c5.4 3.9 6.5 11.4 2.6 16.8L334.6 349c-3.9 5.3-11.4 6.5-16.8 2.6z"
    />
  </svg>
</div>

Make Sure to Add Some CSS

But one of the downsides to SVG sprites is that extra styling is necessary to make them behave. Our Font Awesome javascript normally handles this, but in this case you will need to handle this yourself.

Here’s an example:

<!-- Simple styling to size an SVG -->
<style>
  .icon {
    width: 2em;
    height: 2em;
    vertical-align: -0.125em;
  }
</style>