# Introducing Font Awesome 5 and SVG icons

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-font-awesome-5-and-svg-icons/101643
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** new-feature
**Created:** [9 november 2018 om 00:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-font-awesome-5-and-svg-icons/101643 "2018-11-09T00:55:16Z")
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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [4 december 2018 om 17:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-font-awesome-5-and-svg-icons/101643/36 "2018-12-04T17:09:23Z")

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I think your best bet here is to look at how some theme components work. I would highlight these two specifically:

> [@Brand Header](https://meta.discourse.org/t/brand-header-theme-component/77977):
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> discourse2Summary Brand Header adds an extra top header for branding with your logo, navigation links, and social icons for both mobile and desktop views. Brand logo can be an image or text.eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/brand-header)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-brand-header](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-brand-header)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme component Features Desktop preview: …

and

> [@Header Submenus](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-submenus/94584):
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> discourse2Summary Header Submenus will allow you to build a header menu - with submenus - using plain text!eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/header-submenus)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-header-submenus](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-header-submenus)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme component Features Desktop Mobile Settings Name Description Menu items Add menu items. O…

You can install these two components on your site, and/or inspect their code to see how they use JS to insert elements on the page.

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