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

  1. These ARE the Icons You’re Looking For: Why We Updated Our Icon Naming

    What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. When Font Awesome was first released, it included 140 icons, and choosing what to call those icons was a relatively straightforward task. An arrow pointing right was called arrow-right, an icon of headphones was called headphones, and so on. The world was simple then. As Font Awesome grew, naming icons became

    These ARE the Icons You’re Looking For: Why We Updated Our Icon Naming
  2. Icons for Your May 4th Celebration Icons for Your May 4th Celebration
  3. FA1: Mullet — The Story Behind the Icon FA1: Mullet — The Story Behind the Icon
  4. Using Font Awesome with Advanced Custom Fields Using Font Awesome with Advanced Custom Fields
  5. Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Working with Icons: Expectations vs. Reality Working with Icons: Expectations vs. Reality
  10. 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)
  11. 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
  12. Company Culture: Why We Hire for Humility (Over Skill) Company Culture: Why We Hire for Humility (Over Skill)
  13. FA-1 Behind the Icon: Dumpster Fire FA-1 Behind the Icon: Dumpster Fire
  14. FA1: Behind the Icons – Business Icons FA1: Behind the Icons – Business Icons
  15. FA1: Behind the Icon — Sportsball FA1: Behind the Icon — Sportsball