News and information from Font Awesome – the internet's favorite icon set – mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
What I Learned Building the InterWebs’ First Firefly Meets Oregon Trail Text-Based Game At Font Awesome, we schedule cool-down periods to learn new technologies, work on bugs or extra features, and pursue our interests. The goal is to pursue creative ways to better ourselves and Font Awesome. During a recent cool-down, I wanted to spend […]
What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet. When Font Awesome was first released, it included 140 icons, and choosing what to call those icons was a relatively straightforward task. An arrow pointing right was called arrow-right, an icon of headphones was called headphones, and so […]
Ah, yes. A Jedi’s weapon … May the 4th be with you! (And also with you …) At Font Awesome, we love to include icons in our library that bring smiles to folks’ faces. And as such, we thought it would be fun to showcase some icons fit for a galaxy far, far away along […]
There is perhaps no haircut as reviled — yet as resilient as the mullet. A style so irrepressible that if the calculations from the Font Awesome Ministry of Pop Culture are correct, the mullet has stood the test of time for 50 plus years! Love it or hate it, we believe that such an enduring […]
Editor’s note: As we’ve always said here at Font Awesome, WordPress and Font Awesome are two great tastes that can go great together! And fortunately, there are a lot of talented developers out there, making the Font Awesome experience in WordPress even more robust. In this post, guest blogger and developer Matt Keys shows us […]
Here at Font Awesome, we truly believe icons are part of the world’s visual language and serve as a communication tool that can cross language barriers. So when the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reached out last year to propose a collaborative project, we were honored to participate. The work would entail taking […]
Failure is growth. Failure is learning. But sometimes, failure is just failure. If you’ve been hanging in there with us since beta1, maybe you bumped into problems with Duotone icons? We’re sorry about that (read on to learn how we fixed the issue). Are you a font tech nerd? Interested in stories related to the […]
You must unlearn what you have learned Sometimes when you’re busy building the interwebs you can accidentally paint yourself into a corner. As we’ve continued tweaking Font Awesome 6, we discovered a few challenges related to how we were using unicodes. In this blog, we’ll outline some of the key challenges that emerged with unicodes, […]
There are a lot of great free icon sets out there. Unfortunately, they don’t always work with the tech you use. That means you might have to cobble together solutions and travel down the interweb wormhole. And if you find what you’re looking for, will the solution be robust for the long haul? Not only […]
So, you’ve set sail to go make something awesome on your website. Congratulations! You’re one step closer to making an imprint on the world. But what nobody tells you about are the snags that come up when you’re in a hurry to launch your site. Think about the first site you ever built. Tending to […]
I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be! Have you ever come across stats online about how much time is spent during a lifetime on pointless activities? Take standing in line for instance. It turns out, the average person spends six whole years waiting in line. Two and a half […]
To infinity and beyond! There’s been a lot of hustle and bustle at the Font Awesome compound of late. (Maybe you’ve noticed our recent beta releases?) with each new iteration, we continued forging new icons and squashing bugs (ew, David!) That means more icons, more styles, and more ways to use Font Awesome. Well, the wait […]
“I don’t know about you people, but I don’t want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do.” — Gavin Belson Let’s be honest here. There are probably already enough companies producing widgets, technology, and toys. What the world is in short supply of is […]
Given the last couple years, it’s natural we’d create a dumpster fire icon. Read the story behind the icon.
Creating 13,000 icons (and counting) is no small task. And while working at the icon love shack is awesome, it is, well, work. But on a Wednesday night, when there’s nothing on TV and the conditions are perfect for making icons, we like to slip into something a little more comfortable and add a little […]
