[Tex/LaTex] itemize – alignment of custom bullet symbols

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I'm trying to use some icons from the fontawesome package as bullets for the itemize environment. As there are different characters and they are not the same width, the alignment looks mangled:

\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=0]
  \item[\faCode] Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript, Racket
  \item[\faGlobe] Sinatra, Rails, Django, Flask
  \item[\faHTMLfive] HTML5, CSS3, JQuery
  \item[\faCloud] Redis, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  \item[\faExchange] JSON, XML, OAuth
  \item[\faCodeFork] git, SVN
\end{itemize}

Example itemize

How can I align those symbols centred?

Best Answer

A variant using \clap from mathtools and the wideoption of enumitem:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[showframe]{geometry} \usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{mathtools}
% page 3 of manual
\SetLabelAlign{center}{\clap{#1}}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}[wide, labelsep = 1em, align=center]
  \item[\faCode] Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript, Racket
  \item[\faGlobe] Sinatra, Rails, Django, Flask
  \item[\faHTMLfive] HTML5, CSS3, JQuery
  \item[\faCloud] Redis, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  \item[\faExchange] JSON, XML, OAuth
  \item[\faCodeFork] git, SVN
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

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