- [Using Font Data Embedded In Source Code](#using-font-data-embedded-in-source-code)
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## Using Icons
## Using Icon Fonts
Using an icon font (such as [FontAwesome](http://fontawesome.io) or [OpenFontIcons](https://github.com/traverseda/OpenFontIcons)) is an easy and practical way to use icons in your Dear ImGui application.
A common pattern is to merge the icon font within your main font, so you can embed icons directly from your strings without having to change fonts back and forth.
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## Using FreeType Rasterizer
## Using FreeType Rasterizer (imgui_freetype)
- Dear ImGui uses imstb\_truetype.h to rasterize fonts (with optional oversampling). This technique and its implementation are not ideal for fonts rendered at small sizes, which may appear a little blurry or hard to read.
- There is an implementation of the ImFontAtlas builder using FreeType that you can use in the [misc/freetype/](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/tree/master/misc/freetype) folder.
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## Using Colorful Glyphs/Emojis
- Rendering of colored emojis is only supported by imgui_freetype with FreeType 2.10+.
- You will need to load fonts with the `ImGuiFreeTypeBuilderFlags_LoadColor` flag.
- Emojis are frequently encoded in upper Unicode layers (character codes >0x10000) and will need dear imgui compiled with `IMGUI_USE_WCHAR32`.
- Not all types of color fonts are supported by FreeType at the moment.
- Stateful Unicode features such as skin tone modifiers are not supported by the text renderer.
You can use the `ImFontGlyphRangesBuilder` helper to create glyph ranges based on text input. For example: for a game where your script is known, if you can feed your entire script to it and only build the characters the game needs.
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## Using Custom Colorful Icons
**(This is a BETA api, use if you are familiar with dear imgui and with your rendering backend)**
As an alternative to rendering colorful glyphs using imgui_freetype with `ImGuiFreeTypeBuilderFlags_LoadColor`, you may allocate your own space in the texture atlas and write yourself into it. **(This is a BETA api, use if you are familiar with dear imgui and with your rendering backend)**
- You can use the `ImFontAtlas::AddCustomRect()` and `ImFontAtlas::AddCustomRectFontGlyph()` api to register rectangles that will be packed into the font atlas texture. Register them before building the atlas, then call Build()`.
- You can then use `ImFontAtlas::GetCustomRectByIndex(int)` to query the position/size of your rectangle within the texture, and blit/copy any graphics data of your choice into those rectangles.
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