# Changing icons to Font Awesome Pro Version

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-icons-to-font-awesome-pro-version/116873>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** fontawesome-pro, completed\
**Created:** [May 5, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-icons-to-font-awesome-pro-version/116873 "2019-05-05T02:04:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-icons-to-font-awesome-pro-version/116873/9 "2019-05-09T20:22:19Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> And you probably don’t want to download all zillion of the things anyway.

Very much this, the move to FontAwesome 5 coincided with a change to selectively load what was needed and reduced the amount of data sent to the browser by 63%. Blindly loading everything in FA5 Pro would push the needle well in the opposite direction.

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