News and information from Font Awesome – the internet's favorite icon set – mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
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 […]
Version 6 will include a ton of great things, and here’s the full release schedule.
Font Awesome 5.13 is out and focuses solely on a set of icons to help drive awareness on how to prevent and fight the COVID-19 virus.
On Monday, March 9th, 2020 we were made aware of a security issue with our WordPress plugin. The vulnerable versions are 4.0.0-rc15 and 4.0.0-rc16. Version 4.0.0-rc15 was released Thursday, March 5th. The vulnerability exposes the Font Awesome API token and access token for users who have configured the plugin to use a kit. If compromised, […]
TL;DR: We tried to make our Free Kits insanely fast. But browsers changed, and we ended up making them slow. Here’s what happened and how we fixed it. This fix affected our Free Web Font Kits only. In late 2018 we started with a question: what if we could make Font Awesome Free faster for […]
Our latest release includes new science fiction and household icons.
But it’s very, very special. Because if you can see… the numbers all go to eleven. Look. Right across the board. Eleven. Eleven. Eleven. Font Awesome version 5.11 is here with a selection of new icons that breath new (and vintage) life into our music and tech categories. We’ve also rustled up a few new […]
We’re happy to announce that we’ve partnered with the fine folks at Cotton Bureau to bring you a curated selection of t-shirts featuring icons and designs from Font Awesome.
Say hello to Duotone, a beautiful new icon style now available as part of Font Awesome Pro. And the best part? If you know how to use Font Awesome, you already know how to use our duotone icons.
