Font Awesome icon unicode for developers

Hey @Srish - When using the typeface files for Font Awesome, the only real way to get the icon name is to double-click in the text box itself and then copy the icon. You can then past the result into something like Text Edit, which will show you the name of the icon.

This solution does not work for our team that is having the same issue.

This solution did not work for us either. We had to manually search for the icons in FontAwesome website and copy paste the unicode to the figma file for our devs. Please let me know if you find a better solution. Thanks!

Hi @Srish,
I know it’s been a while, but we have the same problem as you described. It also took me a while to find your post, since it doesn’t seem to be a wildly discussed topic. That let me assume most other teams using Figma handling this differently.
Have you find a way to cope with this issue. Would be very glad if you or someone else could point out a way to handle Font Awesome icons better for developers. Thanks in advance!

Same, no way to identify icon after it was placed in Figma

Can it really be true that there is no way to do this and no plan to add the feature? It seems like an essential need for developers. Surely the solution can’t be to manually search for the correct icon by eyeball on the FontAwesome website?

We are still struggling with this topic. Our workaround so far is to name the text layer by the used FA icon. However, that is tedious and error prone. There are plug-ins doing that for you, but the designers still need to keep in mind to run them after every change.
My other hypothesis is, that most teams work with SVG exports and not using FA as a font but as vector graphic. If that’s your way to implement icons you won’t face this issue. But I can’t believe that this is a good approach, since it makes keeping you icons across your product(s) challenging.