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

  1. Upgrading Font Awesome: Why We Joined the No Breakage Club for Version 6

    Don’t insult me. I can fail circles around you losers. Remember the catchphrase, “move fast and break things”? Facebook originally popularized the motto, and it caught on with large swaths of development teams, both large and small. The big idea? If you’re not breaking stuff, you’re not delivering value to customers fast enough. Well, we’ve had to cleanse our palate of that idea for when folks upgrade Font Awesome — especially

    Upgrading Font Awesome: Why We Joined the No Breakage Club for Version 6
  2. Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Noah Jacobus, Icon Designer Extraordinaire Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Noah Jacobus, Icon Designer Extraordinaire
  3. No 👕, Sherlock? No 👕, Sherlock?
  4. Introducing: Space Awesome (The Game) Introducing: Space Awesome (The Game)
  5. How I Built Space Awesome with Vue.JS How I Built Space Awesome with Vue.JS
  6. 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
  7. Icons for Your May 4th Celebration Icons for Your May 4th Celebration
  8. FA1: Mullet — The Story Behind the Icon FA1: Mullet — The Story Behind the Icon
  9. Using Font Awesome with Advanced Custom Fields Using Font Awesome with Advanced Custom Fields
  10. Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Working with Icons: Expectations vs. Reality Working with Icons: Expectations vs. Reality
  15. 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)