News and information from Font Awesome – the internet's favorite icon set – mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
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.
Kits are the fastest and easiest way to get Font Awesome up and running on your website. It’s a little bundle of settings and icons that we think is the best way to use Font Awesome.
The Ents have decided…We have all agreed… that you two are not Orcs. This all started with an issue on our private Font-Awesome-Pro GitHub repository. Our support for tree shaking was shaky at best, requiring an additional tool-specific configuration that was easy to miss. We started down the path to fix the root issue related […]
In May, Font Awesome Pro’s price is going up to $99 a year. You can still buy it now at $60, and we’ll let you keep that price as long as your subscription is active!
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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 […]
“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 […]
