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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.

March 16, 2021
Introducing the Font Awesome Python Package

The default package installer for Python is now an option to all our lovely Font Awesome / Python users!
March 9, 2021
Designing Icons: The 5 Elements of an Icon Grid

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.
March 2, 2021
Use a Custom Icon as a CSS Pseudo-element with Webfont Kit Upload

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.
February 23, 2021
How to Use Font Awesome Pro with Stackable

Pair Stackable with Font Awesome, and you’ve got yourself a website design superpowers combo!
February 17, 2021
Designing Icons: Simplification of Form

An icon is a simplified illustration, but just how simple does it need to be? Well, answering this question is not always easy.
February 16, 2021
Getting Started with React Font Awesome

Our React / Font Awesome component makes for a friction-less way to use our icons in all your React applications.
February 10, 2021
Designing Icons: Context is King

While iconography is ubiquitous, meaning can vary wildly from culture to culture. Choosing thoughtful visual metaphors is key.
February 9, 2021
Designing Icons: Introduction

In this Designing Icons blog series, we’ll explore icons, their metaphors, and what goes into making a great icon.
January 21, 2021
Coloring Awesome

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!
December 22, 2020
Font Awesome 6’s Alpha 2: Double Shot

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.
November 12, 2020
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 […]
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!
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 […]