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

December 11, 2019
Science Fiction + Household Icons in 5.12

Our latest release includes new science fiction and household icons.
September 20, 2019
New music + tech + western icons in 5.11

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 […]
September 4, 2019
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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.
July 29, 2019
Introducing Duotone

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.
May 30, 2019
Introducing Font Awesome Kits

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.
May 9, 2019
Shaking Trees in Font Awesome 5.1

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 […]
April 17, 2019
Font Awesome Pro’s Price is Going up

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!
July 25, 2018
Font Awesome 5.2 — 372 New Icons!

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June 21, 2018
Font Awesome 5.1: 409 New Icons + More

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 […]
May 16, 2018
Locking the Vault on Font Awesome NPM Tokens

“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 […]
May 10, 2018
Font Awesome 5.0.13 — “The Quest for Requests”

Hi, all. We just shipped a new version of Font Awesome that we’re hoping is a crowd favorite. Font Awesome’s been around for a bunch of years now and as it’s grown, so has the number of people using it. Up until its pre-teen years, the project was a one-man show. That meant that even the […]
May 2, 2018
What’s new in Font Awesome 5.0.11

Greetings, Starfighters! We’ve got a fresh release of Font Awesome out for download and use. Here are the cliff notes on what’s new and improved… Improved and Bunches More User Icons Style revamped and inventory expanded to include other reputable professions like astronauts and ninjas Like Tron, our community continues to fight for the users, errr, well, in this case […]
April 20, 2018
Font Awesome Pro CDN Beta and Icon Leaderboard are out!

Happy Spring, folks! Speaking of which, we planted a few new things in the Font Awesome patio garden we think you might want to check out… We launched a beta of our Pro CDN Pick the version and style of Font Awesome you want. Then 1 copy + paste is all you need to start using icons […]
July 25, 2017
New Power Transforms in Font Awesome 5

“With great power comes great responsibility. ” Late last week, we released Font Awesome 5 Alpha 6 to folks who have purchased Font Awesome Pro (backers and pre-orders get early access). There’s tons of new stuff to check out, like our all-new SVG framework (with a teensy dash of JavaScript we make SVG icons […]
November 3, 2016
Fallback to CSS when JavaScript is disabled

We recently had a Font Awesome CDN user ask us if there was a way to fallback to CSS-only when using an embed code. While asynchronous loading and auto-accessibility will not work if JavaScript is disabled that’s no reason to keep the icons from showing up. We can do better. If you haven’t heard of […]