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News and information from Font Awesome – the internet's favorite icon set – mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.

November 12, 2020
Upload Your Own Icons in Font Awesome Kits!

Add your own icons to a kit and use them right alongside(or as a replacement for) official Font Awesome icons!
Protect Your Kits with Whitelisted Domains

You shall not pass! With our recent release, we are adding domain whitelisting to our kits. Read on to find out if whitelisting makes sense for you. Why Whitelist Domains? Right now anyone can take a kit code and use it anywhere they want. So if you are the owner of gondor.com and someone gets […]
October 29, 2020
The First v6 Alpha is Here!

Grab a fresh cup and sample some of our latest progress on Version 6.
August 27, 2020
The Font Awesome Flag Flies Again

Introducing the new Font Awesome logo.
July 27, 2020
Fixing a unicode bug in 5.14.0

Don’t worry! As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88 miles per hour the instant the lightning strikes the tower…everything will be fine. 5.14.0 introduces breaking changes for anyone who is using web fonts with CSS and CSS Pseudo-elements. We’ve posted more details on our upgrading doc. Background on […]
June 24, 2020
Introducing the Font Awesome Desktop Subsetter

These go to eleven. Want the fastest possible Font Awesome icons for your site? Our Pro Kits with SVG icons are usually the best balance of ease of use (no files to manage or move around) and speed (only the icons your site uses are loaded when you need them!). But there are a […]
June 16, 2020
Version 6 Release Schedule

Version 6 will include a ton of great things, and here’s the full release schedule.
March 23, 2020
COVID-19 Awareness Icons

Font Awesome 5.13 is out and focuses solely on a set of icons to help drive awareness on how to prevent and fight the COVID-19 virus.
March 10, 2020
Font Awesome WordPress Plugin API Token vulnerability fixed

On Monday, March 9th, 2020 we were made aware of a security issue with our WordPress plugin. The vulnerable versions are 4.0.0-rc15 and 4.0.0-rc16. Version 4.0.0-rc15 was released Thursday, March 5th. The vulnerability exposes the Font Awesome API token and access token for users who have configured the plugin to use a kit. If compromised, […]
February 21, 2020
Free Kits, A Retrospective

TL;DR: We tried to make our Free Kits insanely fast. But browsers changed, and we ended up making them slow. Here’s what happened and how we fixed it. This fix affected our Free Web Font Kits only. In late 2018 we started with a question: what if we could make Font Awesome Free faster for […]
December 11, 2019
Science Fiction + Household Icons in 5.12

Our latest release includes new science fiction and household icons.
September 20, 2019
New music + tech + western icons in 5.11

But it’s very, very special. Because if you can see… the numbers all go to eleven. Look. Right across the board. Eleven. Eleven. Eleven. Font Awesome version 5.11 is here with a selection of new icons that breath new (and vintage) life into our music and tech categories. We’ve also rustled up a few new […]
September 4, 2019
Hey there, nice

We’re happy to announce that we’ve partnered with the fine folks at Cotton Bureau to bring you a curated selection of t-shirts featuring icons and designs from Font Awesome.
July 29, 2019
Introducing Duotone

Say hello to Duotone, a beautiful new icon style now available as part of Font Awesome Pro. And the best part? If you know how to use Font Awesome, you already know how to use our duotone icons.
May 30, 2019
Introducing Font Awesome Kits

Kits are the fastest and easiest way to get Font Awesome up and running on your website. It’s a little bundle of settings and icons that we think is the best way to use Font Awesome.