dwm doesn't load fontawesome

Question

I want to set up icons for my tags in dwm. I have downloaded the ttf-font-awesome package with sudo pacman -S ttf-font-awesome and I changed this line in my config.h of dwm:

static const char *fonts[] = { "FontAwesome:size=16", "consolas:size=16" };

But it still doesn't work. Some icons show up correctly, while others show up slightly or even completely different. I copied the unicode glyph from fontawesome.com and added it to my *tags array in config.h. Did I miss something? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

The solution was quite simple. I had a Nerd font loaded also, and this font caused the icons to be loaded differently from what I expected. I removed the ner font and everything worked just fine.