With the recent politicizing agendas, it's worth mentioning that old versions aren't necessarily worse, and new versions aren't necessarily better. In case they disappear elsewhere, below you can find the instructions for installing Font Awesome v4.
Download Font Awesome v4
You can download the package here: https://fontawesome.com/v4/assets/font-awesome-4.7.0.zip
In case it goes missing, a backup can be found here.
Using CSS
- Copy the entire
font-awesomedirectory into your project. In the
<head>of your html, reference the location to your font-awesome.min.css.<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css">You can embed an icon in html like this:
<i class="fa fa-address-book" aria-hidden="true"></i>- The full list of icons is here: https://fontawesome.com/v4/icons/ and in case the list disappears, here's a backup.