How to Style Your Social Media Buttons Using Font Awesome

Nowadays every website must have the social media icons like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google plus and much more. I this tutorial, you will learn how to style your social media buttons with the help of font awesome CSS. Please keep your close eye in this tutorial, I am going to share How to Style Your Social Media Buttons Using Font Awesome with examples.

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How to Style Your Social Media Buttons

Let’s create social media buttons for your site. Before creating any social buttons, make sure you have added the font awesome CSS file in your web page. Include the below font awesome CSS file before head tag close in your web page.

<!-- Add icon library -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/
font-awesome.min.css"/>

font-awesome.min.css"/>

Below is the list of social media icons, which you can add to your website.

<!-- Add font awesome icons -->
<a href="#" class="fa fa-facebook"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-twitter"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-google"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-linkedin"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-youtube"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-instagram"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-pinterest"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-snapchat-ghost"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-skype"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-android"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-dribbble"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-vimeo"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-tumblr"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-vine"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-foursquare"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-stumbleupon"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-flickr"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-yahoo"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-reddit"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-rss"></a>

Also you need to add below CSS code to style your social media icons.

.fa {
padding: 20px;
font-size: 30px;
width: 50px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
margin: 5px 2px;
}

.fa:hover {
opacity: 0.7;
}

.fa-facebook {
background: #3B5998;
color: white;
}

.fa-twitter {
background: #55ACEE;
color: white;
}

.fa-google {
background: #dd4b39;
color: white;
}

.fa-linkedin {
background: #007bb5;
color: white;
}

.fa-youtube {
background: #bb0000;
color: white;
}

.fa-instagram {
background: #125688;
color: white;
}

.fa-pinterest {
background: #cb2027;
color: white;
}

.fa-snapchat-ghost {
background: #fffc00;
color: white;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}

.fa-skype {
background: #00aff0;
color: white;
}

.fa-android {
background: #a4c639;
color: white;
}

.fa-dribbble {
background: #ea4c89;
color: white;
}

.fa-vimeo {
background: #45bbff;
color: white;
}

.fa-tumblr {
background: #2c4762;
color: white;
}

.fa-vine {
background: #00b489;
color: white;
}

.fa-foursquare {
background: #45bbff;
color: white;
}

.fa-stumbleupon {
background: #eb4924;
color: white;
}

.fa-flickr {
background: #f40083;
color: white;
}

.fa-yahoo {
background: #430297;
color: white;
}

.fa-soundcloud {
background: #ff5500;
color: white;
}

.fa-reddit {
background: #ff5700;
color: white;
}

.fa-rss {
background: #ff6600;
color: white;
}

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.fa {

padding: 20px;

font-size: 30px;

width: 50px;

text-align: center;

text-decoration: none;

margin: 5px 2px;

}

.fa:hover {

opacity: 0.7;

}

.fa-facebook {

background: #3B5998;

color: white;

}

.fa-twitter {

background: #55ACEE;

color: white;

}

.fa-google {

background: #dd4b39;

color: white;

}

.fa-linkedin {

background: #007bb5;

color: white;

}

.fa-youtube {

background: #bb0000;

color: white;

}

.fa-instagram {

background: #125688;

color: white;

}

.fa-pinterest {

background: #cb2027;

color: white;

}

.fa-snapchat-ghost {

background: #fffc00;

color: white;

text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;

}

.fa-skype {

background: #00aff0;

color: white;

}

.fa-android {

background: #a4c639;

color: white;

}

.fa-dribbble {

background: #ea4c89;

color: white;

}

.fa-vimeo {

background: #45bbff;

color: white;

}

.fa-tumblr {

background: #2c4762;

color: white;

}

.fa-vine {

background: #00b489;

color: white;

}

.fa-foursquare {

background: #45bbff;

color: white;

}

.fa-stumbleupon {

background: #eb4924;

color: white;

}

.fa-flickr {

background: #f40083;

color: white;

}

.fa-yahoo {

background: #430297;

color: white;

}

.fa-soundcloud {

background: #ff5500;

color: white;

}

.fa-reddit {

background: #ff5700;

color: white;

}

.fa-rss {

background: #ff6600;

color: white;

}

Output is:

Round Social media Buttons

If you want to add round social media buttons, then add the border-radius:50% in your css code. See the below example:

.fa {
padding: 20px;
font-size: 30px;
width: 30px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
margin: 5px 2px;
border-radius: 50%;
}

.fa {

padding: 20px;

font-size: 30px;

width: 30px;

text-align: center;

text-decoration: none;

margin: 5px 2px;

border-radius: 50%;

}

The output of above CSS code:

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How to Style Your Social Media Buttons Using Font Awesome

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