News and information from Font Awesome – the internet's favorite icon set – mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
Do you need to use a custom icon as a CSS Pseudo-element? Now you can, with the release of a new beta feature for Font Awesome Pro subscribers: Webfont Kit Icon Upload.
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 […]
In case you missed it the first time ’round, our very own Jory Raphael began a blog series on the basics of Designing Icons. Curious about what makes for an awesome icon? You’ve come to the right place. Get caught up on icon design principles, and let us know what you think on Twitter. Designing […]
We announced FA 6 Alpha 3 in more detail last week, but wanted to make sure you didn’t miss it. Along with more fine-tuning and fixes, we’ve added a few goodies and as alway—more icons! Take ‘er out for a spin and let us know what you think! Here are just a few of the […]
Font Awesome 6’s third Alpha release is out now! Along with more fine-tuning and fixes, we’ve added a few goodies and of course more icons.
The interwebs is like magic, isn’t it? Yet, have you ever noticed how grumpy and impatient your inner internet panda gets when you have to wait for a page to load? Grumpy Panda needs the benefits of CDN. Vanellope: We are going to the internet! Ralph: Super exciting! Just one minor thing: what is an […]
The default package installer for Python is now an option to all our lovely Font Awesome / Python users!
The easiest way to start filling a blank canvas is by adding predefined constraints that give you limits to work within. In icon design, one of the most useful constraints is the icon grid.
Pair Stackable with Font Awesome, and you’ve got yourself a website design superpowers combo!
An icon is a simplified illustration, but just how simple does it need to be? Well, answering this question is not always easy.
Our React / Font Awesome component makes for a friction-less way to use our icons in all your React applications.
While iconography is ubiquitous, meaning can vary wildly from culture to culture. Choosing thoughtful visual metaphors is key.
In this Designing Icons blog series, we’ll explore icons, their metaphors, and what goes into making a great icon.
To play a bit with Font Awesome 6’s new Thin style of icons and to preserve our own pandemic parental sanity, we’ve made a set of our own coloring sheets!
It’s that time again – time for a new Font Awesome 6 Alpha release! With this second Alpha release, we’ve not only tucked in some fixes and improvements – like adding SVG+JS support for aliases – but kept on stuffing in more great icons and features until it was about to burst.
