Fort Awesome

Fort Awesome Acquires Symbolset!

Today we’re crazy-super-excited to announce that Fort Awesome has…

Custom icons — now with less frustration

Recently we had one of our customers contact us through support to tell us that a tall custom icon he was uploading using Fort Awesome’s copy-n-paste feature was landing in the EM box on the left and stubbornly refusing to center and trim itself.

No More Doc-Blocking: Shareable Doc & More in Fort Awesome!

“I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you.”

Our Fort Awesome users are, well, Awesome. They continuously help us take steps to make curating and managing the perfect set of icons and…

How-To: Use Fort Awesome Icons

Let’s go through some basic steps and cases of using Fort Awesome icons on the web.

Set Up

Let’s assume you’ve made a Fort Awesome kit, (if not, its super easy to get started). Make sure you have the most recent version…

How-To: Serve Fort Awesome Assets Yourself

Fort Awesome’s CDN makes it easy to get your site up and running without fussing about where to serve and load your icons and typefaces from. But what if you or your team already have a CDN or asset pipeline/workflow that works for you?

How-To: Use Fort Awesome Icons in Desktop Apps

Fort Awesome and its CDN make it easy to curate, manage, and build with your icons and typefaces. But what if you or your team need to use your collected assets in your favorite design apps, within desktop apps or presentations or elsewhere?

Duotone Icons Using Fort Awesome

Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?

Lets do something simple that looks all fancy. Let’s take a regular icon, split it into 2 layers, and make them 2 different colors. And let’s have them inherit the color of their…

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…

6 Tips for Designing Crisp, Readable Icons

Build an Awesome Icon Set, Part 2