July 25, 2018
Font Awesome 5.2 — 372 New Icons!
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The Font Awesome Blog
News and information from Font Awesome – the internet's favorite icon set – mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
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June 21, 2018
Font Awesome 5.1: 409 New Icons + More
Font Awesome Version 5.1.0 is here and it’s not just the nerdy semantic versioning bump that makes this update huge. We’ve packed new icon categories, new icons, and lots of fixes under the hood to add power and ease when using our icons. You’ve got 409 new icons waiting for you. That makes more than 1,000 icons added to Font Awesome already this year! That’s […]
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May 16, 2018
Locking the Vault on Font Awesome NPM Tokens
“I’m not saying anything, I’m putting it in the vault, I’m locking the vault. It’s a vault!” —Seinfeld photo: jasonbaker@flickr (CC BY 2.0) Well, we thought we gave you a way to keep a secret better than George or Elaine, but it turns out that — in some cases — the vault combo was printed on the handle. TLDR: We fixed […]
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May 10, 2018
Font Awesome 5.0.13 — “The Quest for Requests”
Hi, all. We just shipped a new version of Font Awesome that we’re hoping is a crowd favorite. Font Awesome’s been around for a bunch of years now and as it’s grown, so has the number of people using it. Up until its pre-teen years, the project was a one-man show. That meant that even the […]
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May 2, 2018
What’s new in Font Awesome 5.0.11
Greetings, Starfighters! We’ve got a fresh release of Font Awesome out for download and use. Here are the cliff notes on what’s new and improved… Improved and Bunches More User Icons Style revamped and inventory expanded to include other reputable professions like astronauts and ninjas Like Tron, our community continues to fight for the users, errr, well, in this case […]
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April 20, 2018
Font Awesome Pro CDN Beta and Icon Leaderboard are out!
Happy Spring, folks! Speaking of which, we planted a few new things in the Font Awesome patio garden we think you might want to check out… We launched a beta of our Pro CDN Pick the version and style of Font Awesome you want. Then 1 copy + paste is all you need to start using icons […]
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July 25, 2017
New Power Transforms in Font Awesome 5
“With great power comes great responsibility. ” Late last week, we released Font Awesome 5 Alpha 6 to folks who have purchased Font Awesome Pro (backers and pre-orders get early access). There’s tons of new stuff to check out, like our all-new SVG framework (with a teensy dash of JavaScript we make SVG icons […]
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November 3, 2016
Fallback to CSS when JavaScript is disabled
We recently had a Font Awesome CDN user ask us if there was a way to fallback to CSS-only when using an embed code. While asynchronous loading and auto-accessibility will not work if JavaScript is disabled that’s no reason to keep the icons from showing up. We can do better. If you haven’t heard of […]
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August 18, 2016
How to use asynchronous font loading
Recently we announced a release of our asynchronous font loading, which is available through all of our kits on Fort Awesome. With it came some backward-incompatible changes that we felt were needed to clean up our initial release. One comment we’ve received from a lot of users is: “How do I use this?” So we […]