This plugin is not developing no more. You can use https://github.com/keremciu/sketch-iconfont plugin, its a maintainable version.
Its a nice plugin to use fontawesome in Sketch for developers and designers.
Update: New UI and commands
Features
A Problem of the Designer:When you want to add an icon from fontawesome, you don't need to find a cheatsheet to copy it in your design.
- You can easily add it now in sketch.
A Problem of the Developer:When you want to learn the alias of the icon which is added from a designer, you don't need to look all of 585+ icons to find it.
- You can easily learn it now in sketch.
Install
- Download ZIP of this repo.
- Extract and rename folder to what would you like.
- Put the folder in your Sketch plugin folder (Use
Plugins > Reveal Plugins Folderto find the plugin folder).
Dependencies
- You need to install fontawesome font to your os system. You can download from here: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/raw/master/fonts/FontAwesome.otf
Problem
It's not working with sketch beta. Because sketch beta is not supporting NSFont, I'll be fix it when it will be finished.
Usage
for designer
- Insert a text layer in sketch document.
- Select
Add Icon with Aliasunder the plugin inPluginsmenu. - Write the alias of icon which you want to add.
for developer
- Select the text layer of icon.
- Select
Get Alias of Iconunder the plugin inPluginsmenu.
Note
It will be helped you only when you use font awesome font.
I'll be add some functions, one of them: you can add icon from font awesome icon list.
Do you have any suggestion? it would be so nice.
Next steps
- I'm trying to build a Clean UI for archive view. We'll select icons from the tableview(nstableview).
- I'm trying to create a new plugin, it will include material-icon-font and svg icon font parser.
- I will add "icon categories" in "Add icon from Archive". I'll be using it to filter icons.
- I need to delete unnecessary codes.- I need to add more annotations and good instructions.
Material icon font is coming soon.
License
MIT