# Are icon fonts like Font Awesome necessary?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-icon-fonts-like-font-awesome-necessary/30953>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [7월 10, 2015, 2:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-icon-fonts-like-font-awesome-necessary/30953 "2015-07-10T14:54:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [7월 10, 2015, 7:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-icon-fonts-like-font-awesome-necessary/30953/11 "2015-07-10T19:47:50Z")

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Follow @riking’s instructions, above – if you force override all fonts, you’re gonna have a bad time.

But overriding everything except `<i class="fa">` should work just fine.

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