News and information from Font Awesome – the internet’s favorite icon set – mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.

  1. What We Learned About Painting Ourselves into a Corner with Our Own Tech: Icon Unicodes and Ligatures Edition

    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, and how we found solutions. Well cover: Using standard unicode values for some English

    What We Learned About Painting Ourselves into a Corner with Our Own Tech: Icon Unicodes and Ligatures Edition
  2. Now You Can Stop Shoehorning Solutions to Get Icons Working with Your Tech — Font Awesome Matches Your Tool Stack Now You Can Stop Shoehorning Solutions to Get Icons Working with Your Tech — Font Awesome Matches Your Tool Stack
  3. Working with Icons: Expectations vs. Reality Working with Icons: Expectations vs. Reality
  4. Find Icons with the Right Look and Feel for Your Site (and Quit Wasting Time with Busywork) Find Icons with the Right Look and Feel for Your Site (and Quit Wasting Time with Busywork)
  5. Font Awesome 6 Is Live! See the New Icons, Styles and Upgrade Without the Hassle Font Awesome 6 Is Live! See the New Icons, Styles and Upgrade Without the Hassle
  6. Company Culture: Why We Hire for Humility (Over Skill) Company Culture: Why We Hire for Humility (Over Skill)
  7. FA-1 Behind the Icon: Dumpster Fire FA-1 Behind the Icon: Dumpster Fire
  8. FA1: Behind the Icons – Business Icons FA1: Behind the Icons – Business Icons
  9. FA1: Behind the Icon — Sportsball FA1: Behind the Icon — Sportsball
  10. FA1: Behind the Icon — Poo Storm FA1: Behind the Icon — Poo Storm
  11. 5 Annoying Things You Can STOP Doing When You Get Font Awesome Pro 5 Annoying Things You Can STOP Doing When You Get Font Awesome Pro
  12. [Checklist] How to Choose Between SVG or Webfont [Checklist] How to Choose Between SVG or Webfont
  13. It’s Official. Font Awesome 6 is Coming in February 2022! It’s Official. Font Awesome 6 is Coming in February 2022!
  14. Expanding the Definition of Nerdery: Why Technology for its Own Sake is a Bad Idea Expanding the Definition of Nerdery: Why Technology for its Own Sake is a Bad Idea
  15. Nerd Show and Tell: Folktronica Music Machines are Awesome! Nerd Show and Tell: Folktronica Music Machines are Awesome!