News and information from Font Awesome – the internet's favorite icon set – mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
Add your own icons to a kit and use them right alongside(or as a replacement for) official Font Awesome icons!
Grab a fresh cup and sample some of our latest progress on Version 6.
Introducing the new Font Awesome logo.
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 […]
Want to make Font Awesome faster on 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!). These go to eleven. But there are a few edge […]
