News and information from Font Awesome – the internet's favorite icon set – mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
At Font Awesome, we take pride in working with the very best people we know, not only those with top tier professional skills, but the kind of quality people you want to work with every day. That’s why we were so thrilled when Noah Jacobus joined the Font Awesome team as an icon designer. In […]
In 2017, we had the great opportunity to attend Y Combinator (the Silicon Valley tech startup accelerator.) If there’s one key idea that attendees to YC tech startups should come away with, it’s to “make something people want.” It’s a good thing the idea stuck because it’s also a strong theme that frames the story […]
The fifth episode of Podcast Awesome focuses on Alex Poiry, the Head of Security at the Font Aweome. It doesn’t take long for things to get a little zany after Alex gives a rundown of the duties he has at work. He shares his love of early 2000s memes and how he ended up working […]
Light as a feather, stiff as a board. This year, we’re focusing our icon design efforts on launching the entire Sharp family of styles. We’ve completed Sharp Solid and Regular. And now, ladies and gentlemen, please join us in welcoming to the stage, Sharp Light! Sharp Light is the lust-have icon style of the season […]
This Is A Cocoon, And Inside He’s Going Through Changes. Lots Of Changes. With Font Awesome version 6, we wanted to add a little more personality to our animals icons. For the most part, this meant making minor changes and adjustments, while keeping the general “core” of the icons the same. OK, who are we […]
Since COVID times, remote work has been a hot topic. Not to toot our fa-horn, but Font Awesome has been a remote company since day one. While it has some downsides, we have found a rhythm that works well for our team that respects each member’s autonomy while allowing time to meet up in person […]
Font Awesome is hiring a product designer to build an entirely new design system product.
Well, wouldn’t you know it? Our podcast is finally live and out in the world. Yay us! What’s Podcast Awesome you ask? A short-form, conversational podcast where we discuss icons, design, technology, business, and of course nerdery with Font Awesome team members. In this episode, we discuss all the work we did in 2022, and […]
Meet Frances Botsford, Font Awesome’s Product Designer. Frances tells us about the last bit of work she did on the “Font Awesome Reusable TidbitS” project (work out that acronym, hehe), and the latest in web components. Frances also recalls a post-college job where she helped build stages for outdoor concerts, and her new interest in […]
We have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem. Last year we introduced the Sharp family of icons and sent Sharp Solid prancing down the runway looking fabulous. Now it’s time for Sharp Regular to shimmy onto the scene and into some new designs. But don’t be fooled. While this […]
A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist The easiest way to get icons on your website is with a Kit. They’re your very own custom version of Font Awesome, all bundled up with only the icons, tools, and settings you need. But we’ve been hearing from customers recently […]
Open up your eyes, open up your ears, get together and make things better In just a few weeks, we’re launching a brand new podcast unsurprisingly called — wait for it — Podcast Awesome! You’re welcome. Podcast Awesome was years in the making. It took a minute to get this podcast off the ground cause, […]
It’s been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has amassed over 300 million monthly hits on jsDelivr and as of today, it is jsDelivr’s 73rd most popular project. And that was just the beta version. Today, I’m happy to announce that the first stable release of […]
The best way to spread icon cheer is by singing loud for all to hear! If we could send you a singing telegram to show our appreciation, we would. But that miiiight be a little weird. Maybe a blog will do? Anyhoo, we’re so thankful that you chose Font Awesome. We hope this season finds […]
One ring icon to rule them all … How many icons are enough? Well, we’ve been saying juuuust a few more ever since 2012. What can we say? Icon tech and design cast a spell on us. And now we’ve cast a technological spell of our own, so Pro users have the power to wield […]
