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## Background
[Font Awesome](http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/) is an iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap. Twitter Bootstrap comes with an icon set (Gliphicons) built in. This set is rendered using image sprites. Font based icons are are an alternative, and convenient means of incorporating icons into a web application. It is a technique that is growing in popularity. One of its plus points is how easy it is to manipulate an icon with css. A few lines of the most basic css can change the size and color of an icon, or set of icons. Try doing that with an image sprite!

## Usage
## Installation
To add the fontawesome resource to your project

* Install the plugin by adding the appropriate plugin dependency in your Build.config
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The above example assumes you also have the [grails twitter bootstrap plugin](http://grails.org/plugin/twitter-bootstrap) installed.

## Usage
You can include an icon in your HTML using the appropriate css class. See the [Font Awesome project on GitHub](http://fortawesome.githuCSSb.com/Font-Awesome/) for a list of the icons and their
corresponding class names.

Example
```
<i class="icon-user"></i>
```





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