calendar symbol

Question

Similar to Symbol for Phone Number in Resume, is there a LaTeX command for a calendar symbol?

Answer 1

The package fontawesome provides some symbols. You can also use TikZ or PSTricks. A very simple appraoch using TikZ is shown in the MWE too.

% arara: lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shadings}
\begin{document}
\faCalendar\qquad\faCalendarEmpty

\newcommand\myday{\fill[gray!80] (0,0)(.25,.25);}

\begin{tikzpicture}


\fill[gray!80,rounded corners=10pt,] (0,0) rectangle (2,2);
\fill[gray!20,rounded corners=10pt,] (0,1.6) -- (0.01,0.05) -- (1.8,0.2) -- (1.95,1.6) ;
\fill[red!75,rounded corners=10pt] (0,1.5) -- (0,2) -- (2,2) -- (2,1.5) ;
\foreach \y in { 0.3 , 0.7 , 1.1  } {
 \foreach \x in { 0.2 , 0.6 , 1.0 , 1.4 } {
  \begin{scope}[xshift=\x cm,yshift=\y cm]
   \fill[gray!80] (0,0) rectangle (.25,.25);
  \end{scope}
 }
}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}