how to scale (large) font-awesome icons from the react-icons package

Question

I am using the marvelouse react-icons package (http://gorangajic.github.io/react-icons/fa.html), specifically the font awesome package.

If this was not react, then I wou

Answer 1

if you want a 5x icon size you need to pass it to the react class as size

// Font awesome pixel sizes relative to the multiplier. 
// 1x - 14px
// 2x - 28px
// 3x - 42px
// 4x - 56px
// 5x - 70px

if you notice it jumps by 14 each time

from the github readme it shows everything is overridden inline. its rendering a svg so you cant use 5x you have to use a pixel size