Fort Awesome Articles

Want Font Awesome to be More Awesome?

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

Font Awesome, the massive icon collection, will be celebrating its fourth anniversary this March. We’ve added over 600 icons. We’ve helped folks spin, stack, and flip them. And…

Want To Develop Software?

Being new to anything means there is a lot of work ahead. And when it’s a what you want to do as a career, failure…

Advanced Icon Design: Whitespace

Getting Started with Fort Awesome

Pretty cunning, don’t you think?

Make sure to check out our previous article on prepping icons with Illustrator’s Pathfinder.

Prepping Icons with Pathfinder

Getting Started with Fort Awesome

Not all those who wander are lost.

One of the trickier things about uploading your own icons into Fort Awesome is prepping the icons first. You’ll need to create an…

Fonticons is now Fort Awesome!

Chewie, we’re home.

Should I Bother with a CDN?

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are used all over the Internet. To make the explanation brief: they are Internet servers that deliver all sorts of stuff to browsers and mobile devices faster and with more reliability than just using your own server. If you want to geek out read…

Visual Consistency and Setup

Build an Awesome Icon Set, Part 1

Missing an icon? Want to add your logo?

Font Awesome is a massive icon set. It contains more that 500 icons and over 100 of those are brand icons. With all these choices you would think there would be something for everyone. Not so, we get icon requests daily!

Level up your Font Awesome

Font Awesome has quickly become the most popular icon set on the Internet. We think Font Awesome is quite spectacular, but we started thinking that we could make it even better. That’s why we made Fonticons.