The primary icon-set for the J1 Template is Material Design Icons, a rich set providing more than 7200+ icons for the current version v7 of March 2023. MDI has excellent support of the Material Design (MD) styles defined by Google and comes with Googles' original MD icon set build-in.

Material Design Icons is a beneficial design resource for Web Design based on Google's Material Design. The MDI icon set is a community-driven project to provide a large number of different icons for the Web.

An alternative to the default MDI-based icon set for the J1 Template is Material Design Light Icons — the set is providing currently 260+ icons for the latest version.

FontAwesome is icon toolkit based on CSS, initially created by Dave Gandy. The previous version 4 was mainly for the use of Twitter Bootstrap V3. The current version V5, released in December 2017, focuses on all frameworks used for web development. Today, the free FA icon set comes with 1400+ icons included.

Since version 5, the icon set comes in two packages: FontAwesome Free and the proprietary, commercial FontAwesome Pro version but requires a license fee to pay. The free versions (all releases up to 4 and the free version for 5) are available under SIL Open Font License 1.1, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, and the MIT License.

FontAwesome V5 meets the Material Design idea of Google, and in comparison to Version 4, the current version is much more than face-lifting. The new version comes with more than 2300+ icons, but many are available only with the Pro license. For the Free version, only a subset of 900+ icons is available.

You can check out what icons available at FontAwesome Icons. The icon set of version V5 is fully integrated - no need for additional resources to load.

With version V5 of FontAwesome, the icon set is split into two general parts:

Find below examples of both sets and how to use with J1 Template.

Sometimes icons are missing like a specific brand or theme icon. An interesting solution for using icons from a remote repository are Iconify-Framework Icons. the Iconify-Framework consuse a so-called Unified Open Source Icon framework that makes it possible to use icons from multiple sets.

To access that framework, a Javascript client is needed. For the J1 Template, the client is build-in and is loaded if Iconify-Framework icons are requested as a resource. To see what icon sets are available with that framework, check the page Iconify-Framework Icon Sets.

Currently, over 40,000 vector icons are available for many different use cases. Find some examples below.

Have you’ve enjoyed the possibilities The template system offers for using font icons? Do you think these icon sets can fit your needs? For sure, using Iconify, for all topics, you will find a suitable icon.

J1 Template implements some handy Ruby-based enhancements for the markup language Asciidoc. Providing extensions for a Jekyll theme is a unique feature of Jekyll One compared to other Jekyll themes and templates.

To make the use of modules for the template easier, some more extensions support you to place for example lightboxes, sliders, or galleries using Asciidoc block elements. I’m sure, you’ll love it.