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

  1. 9 Icon Designers To Be Watching Right Now

    Hi, I’m Noah, Senior Icon Designer here at Font Awesome. I’ve always drawn very small — ever since I was young, I would doodle super tiny. I didn’t know why then, but after years of drawing tiny pictures, I think I’ve figured it out: icon sets are like tiny little universes. Through what they depict and how, you can glean a lot about what a product is, how it functions,

    9 Icon Designers To Be Watching Right Now
  2. Upgrading Font Awesome: Why We Joined the No Breakage Club for Version 6 Upgrading Font Awesome: Why We Joined the No Breakage Club for Version 6
  3. Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Noah Jacobus, Icon Designer Extraordinaire Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Noah Jacobus, Icon Designer Extraordinaire
  4. No 👕, Sherlock? No 👕, Sherlock?
  5. Introducing: Space Awesome (The Game) Introducing: Space Awesome (The Game)
  6. How I Built Space Awesome with Vue.JS How I Built Space Awesome with Vue.JS
  7. These ARE the Icons You’re Looking For: Why We Updated Our Icon Naming These ARE the Icons You’re Looking For: Why We Updated Our Icon Naming
  8. Icons for Your May 4th Celebration Icons for Your May 4th Celebration
  9. FA1: Mullet — The Story Behind the Icon FA1: Mullet — The Story Behind the Icon
  10. Using Font Awesome with Advanced Custom Fields Using Font Awesome with Advanced Custom Fields
  11. Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons
  12. Ever Have Trouble with Unicode Variation Selectors? It Didn’t Work for Us, Either. Here’s What We Learned and How We Fixed It Ever Have Trouble with Unicode Variation Selectors? It Didn’t Work for Us, Either. Here’s What We Learned and How We Fixed It
  13. What We Learned About Painting Ourselves into a Corner with Our Own Tech: Icon Unicodes and Ligatures Edition What We Learned About Painting Ourselves into a Corner with Our Own Tech: Icon Unicodes and Ligatures Edition
  14. 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
  15. Working with Icons: Expectations vs. Reality Working with Icons: Expectations vs. Reality