Font-awesome: Feature request: Figma Plugin

[johnbwoodruff]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Not a problem with Font Awesome. More a workflow annoyance for me individually.

Describe the solution you'd like
Figma now allows for plugins. There is a new Material Design Icons plugin that allows you to easily search for an icon and add it to your design. I use and love Font Awesome, and currently I simply have the SVG files downloaded to my computer, and I drag and drop those in, then resize them to fit my needs. It would be amazing if there was an official Font Awesome plugin (that ideally even included the pro icons) that would allow me to do the same as the Material Design Icons plugin.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've considered building such a plugin myself as a third party offering, although I'm not super familiar with how I might do that with how Font Awesome's repo is built. I'm still investigating it, but a first party solution is always a better option.

Additional context
Here's a screenshot of how the plugin works:

Feature request checklist

• [x] This is a single feature (i.e. not a re-write of all of Font Awesome)
• [x] The title starts with "Feature request: " and is followed by a clear feature name (Ex: Feature request: moar cowbell)
• [x] I have searched for existing issues and to the best of my knowledge this is not a duplicate

[sensibleworld]

Hey @johnbwoodruff, thanks for the suggestion! We've actually been discussing this internally already. No set plans yet, but it's definitely on our radar, and something we'd like to make happen.

[megaroeny]

I would just want to make sure that it doesn't just import the SVG because we take advantage of using the actual font so we have dynamic icons in Figma.

For example, to have a search icon, we set the font to FA, and just write search and change the style to whatever weight we want. So basically, we use the actual ligatures with the font and have it as a Style in our Team Library. Then you just override the text content and boom, new icon without breaking the Style! 😃

The main thing I would use this plugin for is to quickly add the Duotone SVGs on the canvas. Glad you posted this and that the team is already thinking about it. Thanks!

[sobopla]

Any progress?

[azilnik]

Potentially an addition to this feature, or a separate request—what about going the other way? It would be amazing if one is able to create icons in Figma and use Figma to sync these designs into Fort Awesome.

[megaroeny]

Potentially an addition to this feature, or a separate request—what about going the other way? It would be amazing if one is able to create icons in Figma and use Figma to sync these designs into Fort Awesome.

That kind of thing would only be internal to the team.

[sensibleworld]

No progress yet on the Figma plugin, unfortunately. We've been hard at work on other features and icons for Font Awesome 6. That said, we're definitely open to collaboration on this, if someone has experience with building plugins for Figma.

As for sending things from Figma TO Font Awesome... we're launching a new Icon Upload feature soon!