This extension provides support including free icons provided by Font Awesome. Icons can be used in both HTML (via Font Awesome 6 Free) and PDF (via the fontawesome5 LaTeX package).

$ quarto install extension quarto-ext/fontawesome

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you're using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

To embed an icon, use the {{{< fa >}}} shortcode. For example:

{{< fa thumbs-up >}} 
{{< fa folder >}}
{{< fa chess-pawn }}
{{{< fa brands bluetooth }}}

This extension includes support for only free Font Awesome icons (there are roughly 2,000 free icons, while the complete set of Pro icons consists of more than 16,000). You can browse all of the available free icons here:

https://fontawesome.com/search?m=free

Note that there is a brands prefix used within the bluetooth example above. If you choose an icon from the brands collection, you will need to add a brands collection specifier. For example, if you search the free icons for "github" and then click on the github icon, you'll see this as the suggested HTML to embed the icon:

<i class="fa-brands fa-github"></i>

The fa-brands indicates that the icon is in the brands collection. To use this with Quarto just add the brands collection prefix as follows:

{{{< fa brands github }}}

Here is the source code for a minimal example: example.qmd

This is the output of example.qmd for HTML and PDF.