Custom Font not working

Question

Hi,

i am trying to use Font Awsome as the custom font in my app.

I added the icon and set it to EmbeddedResources and added:

[assembly: ExportFont("FontAwesomeRegular.otf", Alias = "FontRegular")]

but I am not getting the icon shown and it just shows the default question mark instead..

<Image>
<Image.Source>
    <FontImageSource Grid.Column="4" FontFamily="FontRegular" Color="Black" Glyph="&#xf004;"/>
</Image.Source>
</Image>

Kindly help..

Thanks,
Jassim

Answer 1

I test on my side , the icon shows as expected .

Check the following steps :

• Go to Font Awesome website and download the font file .

• Copy the file into shared project , notice : I select Solid not Regular .

• Set its build Action to Embedded resource .

• Add the following code into AssemblyInfo.cs

[assembly: ExportFont("Font Awesome 5 Free-Solid-900.otf", Alias = "customFont")]

• Usage in Page. <Image>
  <Image.Source>
  <FontImageSource Grid.Column="4" FontFamily="customFont" Color="Black" Glyph=""/>
  </Image.Source>
  </Image>

Answer 2

I am having this issue as well

I have imported the font like so
[assembly: ExportFont("FontAwesome5Pro_Light_300.otf", Alias = "FA5Light300")]

I have a font and it's set to "Embedded Resource"

In my XAML for the AppShell.xaml I have this ...

This uses a namespace to point to the string value for "Sync" contained in FA5ProLight300.cs
xmlns:fontAwesome="clr-namespace:XXXamarin.Fonts;assembly=XXXamarin"
fontAwesome:FA5ProLight300.Sync

I have even tried the escaped value and that doesn't work ether ....

Answer 3

I generated a class with constants using this ...
https://andreinitescu.github.io/IconFont2Code/

Also just noticed .. I am running Visual Studio 2019 on WIndows with MFractor and it decodes things properly while running and I put my pointer over it in the XAML ...

Answer 4

So the awesome guys at Mfractor suggested I try the ttf instead of the otf and that did not make a difference

This works ...

But this does not

And again .. Mfractor knows what it is ....

I even tried a different string constants file to no avail ...

Answer 5

I have uploaded a simple app using the ttf file and a known good working string constants file from here
https://github.com/matthewrdev/fa2cs/blob/master/FontAwesomeIcons.cs

https://github.com/stephenhauck/FontAwesomeCustomFont