fontawesome5 monospaced icons

Question

I have been trying to make icons from fontawesome5 monospaced without much success:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{fontawesome5}

\begin{document}
  \section{MWE}
  The \faIcon{desktop} and \faIcon{mobile} icons should be the same width.
\end{document}

I tried wrapping the \faIcon{} commands in \texttt{}, which did nothing.

Is there a way to do this?

In the meantime, I found an answer to the question that I feel is a bit of an overkill: wrapping the symbols in square boxes, as suggested in the accepted answer of this thread.
Isn't there a better way? — Tomáš Sláma, Apr 01 '19 at 13:20

Steven B. Segletes · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-01T13:29:05.930

The key is to use the "fixed" package option, \usepackage[fixed]{fontawesome5}.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

%\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[fixed]{fontawesome5}

\begin{document}
  \section{MWE}
  The \faIcon{desktop} and \faIcon{mobile} icons should be the same width.

rmfamily:\\
\faIcon{desktop}\faIcon{desktop}\faIcon{desktop}\faIcon{desktop}\faIcon{desktop}\\
\faIcon{mobile}\faIcon{mobile}\faIcon{mobile}\faIcon{mobile}\faIcon{mobile}

\ttfamily 
ttfamily:\\
\faIcon{desktop}\faIcon{desktop}\faIcon{desktop}\faIcon{desktop}\faIcon{desktop}\\
\faIcon{mobile}\faIcon{mobile}\faIcon{mobile}\faIcon{mobile}\faIcon{mobile}
\end{document}

Note that the fixed widths can vary if, for example, you are in a different font family such as \ttfamily. They will still be fixed width, just a different fixed width from \rmfamily.

I can't believe I missed that in the package documentation. Thank you! — Tomáš Sláma, Apr 01 '19 at 13:23

fontawesome5 monospaced icons

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