Drop Cap Icon

[sirsimon]

🧩 What icon are you requesting?

A drop cap: a large capital letter (for example "A") in the top-left corner that spans the first three lines of a paragraph, with short text lines to its right and full-width lines below it. Same visual language as align-left and indent.

Suggested name: drop-cap (aliases: text-drop-cap, dropcap, initial-letter).

This re-opens #8761 (Icon request: fa-text-dropped, 2016), which was added to the "to be created" list in July 2024 and closed in December 2025 when icon requests moved to Discussions.

💡 Where would this icon be used?

In rich-text, ebook and print-book editors: a toolbar or settings button that turns a drop cap on or off for a paragraph or for every chapter opening. It sits next to align-left and indent, and pairs with align-left as the "plain opening" option.

Drop caps are a standard typesetting feature (Microsoft Word: Insert > Drop Cap, Adobe InDesign) and CSS now supports them natively with the initial-letter property, so more web editors expose them. Today there is no Font Awesome icon for it, so we have to draw our own.

🖼️ Visual references (optional but very helpful)

A sketch made from existing Font Awesome Light glyphs (fa-a plus the align lines) is attached below, at 48 px and 16 px and inside a "Plain / Drop cap" button group.

Example from the original request: #8761

🎨 Preferred pack(s) (optional)

• Classic, Duotone, Sharp, Sharp Duotone
• Chisel
• Etch
• Jelly
• Notdog
• Slab
• Thumbprint
• Utility
• Whiteboard

✅ Request checklist

• This request is not for a brand or logo (those follow a different request flow)
• This request is for a single, clear concept (or a matched pair like lock / unlock)
• I've included references or the concept is easy to visualize
• I searched existing Discussions/Issues to avoid duplicates
• I understand how icon requests work and what makes one more likely to be accepted