[Tex/LaTex] Windows logo from fontawesome does not work

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I was looking at an answer here that suggests to use Font Awesome to get the Windows logo: Is the Windows logo available?

However it does not seem to work here, and when I copy/paste the code I don't get any logo. Could you explain how to use the Windows logo from fontawesome?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,fontawesome}

\newcommand{\faWindows}{\FA\symbol{"F17A}}
\newcommand{\faLinux}{\FA\symbol{"F17C}}
\newcommand{\faApple}{\FA\symbol{"F179}}

\begin{document}

\verb|Windows:| \faWindows \par
\verb|Linux  :| \faLinux \par
\verb|Apple  :| \faApple

\end{document}

Best Answer

You seem to be using an outdated version of the Font Awesome font (maybe the one that comes with the CTAN package).

There two ways to fix this.

Adding the updated version of FontAwesome to the texmf-tree

Download the fontawesome latest version from their site: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

Extract the FontAwesome.otf file and put it into the TeX Live tree

<your-texlive-path>/texmf-local/fonts/opentype/public/fontawesome/FontAwesome.otf

If there is no such directory, create it.

Install the updated version of the font as a system font

This depends on your OS, in OpenSUSE you need to search in the package manager and it will install the font for you.

The system font should take precedence over the TeX Live font (I think...)

At this point you can compile your MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,fontawesome}

\newcommand{\faWindows}{\FA\symbol{"F17A}}
\newcommand{\faLinux}{\FA\symbol{"F17C}}
\newcommand{\faApple}{\FA\symbol{"F179}}

\begin{document}

\verb|Windows:| \faWindows \par
\verb|Linux  :| \faLinux \par
\verb|Apple  :| \faApple

\end{document}

And it will work

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On my MacBook (running MacTeX 2013 under MacOSX 10.7.5), your example compiles correctly under LuaLaTeX if I add the instruction \usepackage{fontspec}:

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% !TEX TS-program = lualatex
\documentclass[border=2pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
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Addendum: After I downloaded the OpenType version of this font -- BTW, the version at http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ seems to be slightly newer than the one on the CTAN -- and "activated" it by opening it in the FontBook application and clicking on the "Install" button, the MWE above also compiles correctly under XeLaTeX. This is not exactly surprising, I suppose, as Xe(La)TeX depends heavily on the underlying operating system for activities such as loading fonts.

Addendum, mid-February 2020: The demo document shown above continues to work correctly under LuaLaTeX when run under TeXLive2019 or MacTeX2019. To get it to compile under XeLaTeX, you will probably need to insert the instruction

\defaultfontfeatures{Path = /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fontawesome/}

between the instructions \usepackage{fontspec} and \usepackage{fontawesome}.

The file FontAwesome.otf that's distributed with MacTeX2019 has version number 4.6.3. There is a slightly newer version of the OpenType font file -- version 4.7.0, to be precise -- on github. Both 4.6.3 and 4.7.0 date back to 2016. A minor caveat: I haven't actually tested out the slightly newer version of FontAwesome.otf. However, I believe it should be compatible with the fontawesome package.

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% !TeX TS-program = xelatex

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{tikz}




\name{John}{Doe}
\title{Resum\`e title} 
\phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}
\phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
\phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
\email{john@doe.org}   
\homepage{www.johndoe.com} 
\social[linkedin]{john.doe} 
\social[twitter]{jdoe}      
\social[github]{jdoe}       

\moderncvicons{awesome}


\begin{document}

\makecvtitle

\faLinkedin \, hello
or 
\faLinkedinSign \,  hello 

\faTwitter

\end{document}