title: How to use Font Awesome symbol as marker in matplotlib
body: <p>Is it possible to use a font-awesome icon as a marker in a scatterplot with matplotlib?
  Or is it possible to use it as a font and put the icon as a 'text'?</p>
  
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  <em><sup>This question has originally been asked <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52894613/font-awesome-as-marker-in-matplotlib">here</a>, but has been closed for an unknown reason. Since I consider it a valid and useful problem, which hasn't been addressed anywhere on Stackoverflow and sure deserves an answer, I will simply ask it again.</sup></em></p>