What is the correct way to use "thin" regular fontawesome instead of the thick this theme defaults to?

[Kugeleis]

Checklist

• I have read and accepted the contributing guidelines.

How did you create the site?

Generated from chirpy-starter

Description

This theme renders the fonts to the "tick" version like .

I perfer to have the "thin" versions like
How do I do this?

Operations you have already tried

search the docu

Anything else?

No response

[lynkos]

You'll have to manually update each individual icon.

For the "Home" icon in the sidebar, you'll have to go to Line 24 in _includes/sidebar.html and manually change this line:

<i class="fa-fw fas fa-home"></i>

To:

<i class="fa-fw far fa-house"></i>

Important

The FontAwesome icon you want to use must be part of the Free version (i.e. not Pro or Pro+)

If you want to update an icon in a sidebar tab, edit the icon value in the frontmatter of the respective tab's Markdown file in _tabs. E.g. To change the "About" tab's icon in _tabs/about.md, change this:

---
# the default layout is 'page'
icon: fas fa-info-circle
order: 4
---

To:

---
# the default layout is 'page'
icon: fas fa-info
order: 4
---

If you want to change the icon of a link in the sidebar, update the icon value of the respective link in _data/contact.yml. E.g. To change the "Email" icon, change this:

- type: email
  icon: "fas fa-envelope"
  noblank: true # open link in current tab

To:

- type: email
  icon: "far fa-envelope"
  noblank: true # open link in current tab