# Make font awesome icons locally available

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/make-font-awesome-icons-locally-available/3903>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [August 14, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/make-font-awesome-icons-locally-available/3903 "2016-08-14T01:59:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![inspiritana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/inspiritana/32/1965_2.png) [@inspiritana](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/inspiritana)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/make-font-awesome-icons-locally-available/3903/1 "2016-08-14T01:59:37Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Privacy concerns with gstatic.com [Theme: Universal]](https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/privacy-concerns-with-gstatic-com-theme-universal/3871/2):

I have been able to make both jquery (from [gstatic.com](http://gstatic.com)), the fonts (from [fonts.googleapis.com](http://fonts.googleapis.com)) and the bootstrap.min.css from bootstrapcdn stored available.  
Trying to do the same with font awesome (from bootstrapcdn as well), I have failed for some reason. Here is what I did:

1. Download the files [at fontawesome.io](http://fontawesome.io/get-started/#modal-download)
2. Extract all contents of fonts/ to static/fonts/
3. Extract the font-awesome.min.css to static/css/
4. Replace the following line inside head.html  
`<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">`  
with  
`<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}css/font-awesome.min.css">`

However, the icons cannot be displayed:

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/gohugo/original/2X/6/60542402fa8bda5ba81aa93d5e33dbed0fa23405.png)

Am I missing something?

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**Author:** ![rdwatters](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/rdwatters/32/2848_2.png) [@rdwatters](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/rdwatters)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/make-font-awesome-icons-locally-available/3903/2 "2016-08-14T17:50:54Z")

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Check the font-face call in the CSS file and make sure it’s pointing to the correct font files (i.e., ttf, eot, woff, svg, etc) according to your directory structure.

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**Author:** ![inspiritana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/inspiritana/32/1965_2.png) [@inspiritana](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/inspiritana)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/make-font-awesome-icons-locally-available/3903/3 "2016-08-15T00:53:43Z")

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Gracias!