Embed FontAwesome TTF fonts directly in your compiled binary so you don't need external font files on disk:

1. Convert fa-solid-900.ttf to a C++ byte array using binary_to_compressed_c.exe.
2. Merge font glyphs with default font:

ImFontConfig config;
config.MergeMode = true;
config.PixelSnapH = true;
static const ImWchar icon_ranges[] = { ICON_MIN_FA, ICON_MAX_FA, 0 };

ImGui::GetIO().Fonts->AddFontFromMemoryCompressedTTF(font_compressed_data, font_compressed_size, 14.0f, &config, icon_ranges);

Now you can use icons inline in text: ImGui::Button(ICON_FA_SHIELD_HALVED " Security");!

Embedding fonts in memory eliminates file path dependencies. Single-binary deployments are so clean.

FontAwesome icons make ImGui menus look like commercial enterprise apps.