Iconic fonts in PyQt and PySide applications

QtAwesome

Copyright © 2015–2020 Spyder Project Contributors

Description

QtAwesome enables iconic fonts such as Font Awesome and Elusive Icons in PyQt and PySide applications.

It started as a Python port of the QtAwesome C++ library by Rick Blommers.

Installation

Using conda:

conda install qtawesome

or using pip (only if you don’t have conda installed):

pip install qtawesome

Usage

Supported Fonts

QtAwesome identifies icons by their prefix and their icon name, separated by a period (.) character.

The following prefixes are currently available to use:

• FontAwesome:

  • FA 5.9.0 features 1,534 free icons in different styles:

    • fa5 prefix has 151 icons in the “regular” style.
    • fa5s prefix has 935 icons in the “solid” style.
    • fa5b prefix has 413 icons of various brands.

  • fa is the legacy FA 4.7 version with its 675 icons but all of them (and more!) are part of FA 5.x so you should probably use the newer version above.

• ei prefix holds Elusive Icons 2.0 with its 304 icons.

• mdi prefix holds Material Design Icons 5.4.55 with its 5555 icons.

Examples

import qtawesome as qta

• Use Font Awesome, Elusive Icons or Material Design Icons.

# Get FontAwesome 5.x icons by name in various styles:
fa5_icon = qta.icon('fa5.flag')
fa5_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(fa5_icon, 'Font Awesome! (regular)')
fa5s_icon = qta.icon('fa5s.flag')
fa5s_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(fa5s_icon, 'Font Awesome! (solid)')
fa5b_icon = qta.icon('fa5b.github')
fa5b_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(fa5b_icon, 'Font Awesome! (brands)')

# or Elusive Icons:
asl_icon = qta.icon('ei.asl')
elusive_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(asl_icon, 'Elusive Icons!')

# or Material Design Icons:
apn_icon = qta.icon('mdi.access-point-network')
mdi_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(apn_icon, 'Material Design Icons!')

• Apply some styling

# Styling icons
styling_icon = qta.icon('fa5s.music',
                        active='fa5s.balance-scale',
                        color='blue',
                        color_active='orange')
music_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(styling_icon, 'Styling')

• Stack multiple icons

# Stacking icons
camera_ban = qta.icon('fa5s.camera', 'fa5s.ban',
                      options=[{'scale_factor': 0.5,
                                'active': 'fa5s.balance-scale'},
                               {'color': 'red'}])
stack_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(camera_ban, 'Stack')
stack_button.setIconSize(QtCore.QSize(32, 32))

• Animations

# Spining icons
spin_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(' Spinning icon')
spin_icon = qta.icon('fa5s.spinner', color='red',
                     animation=qta.Spin(spin_button))
spin_button.setIcon(spin_icon)

• Display Icon as a widget

# Spining icon widget
spin_widget = qta.IconWidget()
spin_icon = qta.icon('mdi.loading', color='red',
                     animation=qta.Spin(spin_widget))
spin_widget.setIcon(spin_icon)

# Simple icon widget
simple_widget = qta.IconWidget('mdi.web', color='blue')

• Screenshot

Other features

• QtAwesome comes bundled with Font Awesome, Elusive Icons and Material Design Icons but it can also be used with other iconic fonts. The load_font function allows to load other fonts dynamically.
• QtAwesome relies on the QtPy project as a compatibility layer on the top ot PyQt or PySide.

Icon Browser

QtAwesome ships with a browser that displays all the available icons. You can use this to search for an icon that suits your requirements and then copy the name that should be used to create that icon!

Once installed, run qta-browser from a shell to start the browser.

License

MIT License. Copyright 2015 - The Spyder development team. See the LICENSE file for details.

The Font Awesome, Elusive Icons and Material Design Icons fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

Sponsors

Spyder and its subprojects are funded thanks to the generous support of

and the donations we have received from our users around the world through Open Collective: