Academicons Extension for Quarto

This extension provides support for academicons. Icons can be used in HTML documents only.

The code is adapted from the fontawesome extension.

Installing

quarto install extension schochastics/academicons

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you're using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

Using

To embed an icon, use the {{{< ai >}}} shortcode. For example:

{{< ai arxiv >}} 
{{< ai google-scholar >}}
{{< ai open-access }}
{{< ai open-access size=5x >}}

You can browse all of the available icons here:

https://jpswalsh.github.io/academicons/

Sizing Icons

This extension provides relative, literal, and LaTeX-style sizing for icons.
When the size is invalid, no size changes are made.

• Relative sizing: {{< ai open-access size=2xl >}}.

  Relative Sizing Class	Font Size	Equivalent in Pixels
  2xs	0.625em	10px
  xs	0.75em	12px
  sm	0.875em	14px
  lg	1.25em	20px
  xl	1.5em	24px
  2xl	2em	32px

• Literal sizing: {{< ai open-access size=5x >}}.

  Literal Sizing Class	Font Size
  1x	1em
  2x	2em
  3x	3em
  4x	4em
  5x	5em
  6x	6em
  7x	7em
  8x	8em
  9x	9em
  10x	10em

• LaTeX-style sizing: {{< ai open-access size=Huge >}}.

  Sizing Command	Font Size (HTML)
  tiny (= \tiny)	0.5em
  scriptsize (= \scriptsize)	0.7em
  footnotesize (= \footnotesize)	0.8em
  small (= \small)	0.9em
  normalsize (= \normalsize)	1em
  large (= \large)	1.25em
  Large (= \Large)	1.5em
  LARGE (= \LARGE)	1.75em
  huge (= \huge)	2em
  Huge (= \Huge)	2.5em

Coloring icon

The color of the icon can be changed via the color parameter.
{{< ai open-access color=red >}}

Example

Here is the source code for a minimal example: example.qmd

This is the output of example.qmd for HTML.