FontAwesome not recognized by Typst

[meager harness]

Hello! I am on Fedora 41 and I have installed FontAwesome (free) which can be observed in ~/.local/share/fonts (first picture). However, it doesn't seem to be recognized by Typst as when I type typst fonts --variants there is not trace of FontAwesome (second picture). If I type typst fonts --font-path ~/.local/share/fonts/, it does acknowledge FontAwesome (third picture). But it is still broken in my document (fourth picture).

Any help would be appreciated.

[rose urchin]

I’m not sure, but I think you have to explicitly say you want to use fontawrsome for that character

[meager harness]

What do you mean? I forgot to mention that I use this extension: https://typst.app/universe/package/fontawesome

If I want to draw a fontawesome icon, I use the following syntax: #fa-pen-to-square()

[meager harness]

I honestly don't know what I'm supposed to do. That might be stupid, but I haven't found a solution. 😦

[pulsar hawk]

Have you tried putting the fonts into the project's directory?

[meager harness]

Yes, and it doesn't work. I think it makes no difference as it needs to be installed on your system. It works in the web editor though.

[pulsar hawk]

Could you show a code fragment including this font?

[meager harness]

Well, this is very simple, for instance:

// see: https://typst.app/universe/package/fontawesome
#import "@preview/fontawesome:0.5.0": *

#let tip(it) = thbox(
  title: fa-lightbulb(), 
  content: it, 
  color: orange
)

and when compiling I get this warning

So it is supposedly not installed, even though I have installed it.

[pulsar hawk]

I see. Have you renamed the font file in your directory to "Font Awesome 6 Free"? I've had the same issue on Mac until I've renamed the font file to "Font Awesome 6 Free.otf" (I use an OpenType variant.) Ofc it may not work on Linux well but it seems that Typst tries to load a font file with the specific title

[meager harness]

Well, it seems like it doesn't matter if the files are located in the main directory but rather whether or nor the fonts are installed on your computer.

[still surge]

You need to explicitly give Typst a path to fonts that are not installed system-wide, if you want to use these fonts. This is done with the --font-path command line argument: https://typst.app/docs/reference/text/text/#parameters-font.