Can I use font-awesome without downloading?

Question

For some simple html pages I want to use Fontaweseome without downloading it at all.

I was thinking to have my CSS to point to the /fontFace like this:

(i.e.: directly to the github URL)

@font-face {
  font-family: 'FontAwesome';
  src: url('http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/assets/font-awesome/font/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=3.2.1');
  src: url('http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/assets/font-awesome/font/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix&v=3.2.1') format('embedded-opentype'), url('http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/assets/font-awesome/font/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=3.2.1') format('woff'), url('http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/assets/font-awesome/font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=3.2.1') format('truetype'), url('http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/assets/font-awesome/font/fontawesome-webfont.svg#fontawesomeregular?v=3.2.1') format('svg');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

which I did ... but it does not seem to work.

No errors yet something like this:

 <i class="icon-bar"></i>

where

  <style>
  i { font-family: 'FontAwesome', sans-serif; }
  </style>

is not rendered as expected

Answer 1

Font Awesome is included in Bootstrap's CDN. You just need to add the below link in your head section

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">

and that's it, you can enjoy your icons. You shouldn't need to use font-face or call it in the styles anywhere, just add the appropriate classes to your 'i' tags in the usual way like:

<i class="fa fa-download"></i>

see http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/get-started/