This plugin depends on Font-Awesome for the rendering of the icons. The Font-Awesome fonts and CSS classes should be included in the project. See these urls for more information:

Using the plugin

Copy the dist/images directory and css/js files to your project and include them:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/leaflet.awesome-markers.css">

<script src="js/leaflet.awesome-markers.js"></script>

Now use the plugin to create a marker like this:

// Creates a red marker with the coffee icon
var redMarker = L.AwesomeMarkers.icon({
  icon: 'coffee', 
  color: 'red'
})

L.marker([51.941196,4.512291], {icon: redMarker}).addTo(map);

Supported colors

The 'color' property currently supports these strings:

'red'
'darkred'
'orange'
'green'
'darkgreen'
'blue'
'darkblue'
'purple'
'darkpurple'
'cadetblue'

Supported icons

The 'icon' property supports these strings:

'coffee'
'food'
'plane'
'star'
'beer'
.... and many more, see: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/#icons-new

Spinning icons

You can make any icon spin by setting the spin option to true:

// Creates a red marker with the coffee icon
var redMarker = L.AwesomeMarkers.icon({
  icon: 'spinner', 
  color: 'red',
  spin: true
})

L.marker([51.941196,4.512291], {icon: redMarker}).addTo(map);

License

Leaflet.AwesomeMarkers and colored markers are licensed under the MIT License - http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html.
Font Awesome: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/#license

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Website: http://lennardvoogdt.nl