The Road to Font Awesome 5 (Changelog Interviews #226)

Dave Gandy joined the show to talk about the history of Font Awesome, what’s to come in Font Awesome 5 and their Kickstarter to fund Font Awesome 5 Pro, and how everything they’re doing is funneling back into the forever free and open source — Font Awesome Free.

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Featuring:

• Dave Gandy – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

You can always add more sprinkles!

• Font Awesome
• Font Awesome on GitHub
• Font Awesome Issues on GitHub
• Support Font Awesome 5 on Kickstarter — make sure you watch that video too!
• Dave said the video he created for Font Awesome Black Tie should be an example of what not to do.
• Fort Awesome — Like Font Awesome. But Better. Build and manage icons and typefaces in a single place, then serve them with a single line of code.
• Rob Madole on Twitter
• Travis Chase on Twitter
• Brian Talbot on Twitter
• Videopixie — Find great videographers, directors, video editors, and animators to work with you on your project.
• Half Baked was the set for the Font Awesome video
• Knox Avenue did the production of the Font Awesome video

Below is the photo Dave mentioned when telling the story about the origins of the “Fort Awesome” name (listen at around 24:40).

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!