Podcast Awesome

On Podcast Awesome we talk to members of the Font Awesome team about icons, design, tech, business, and of course, nerdery.

🎙️ Podcast Awesome is your all-access pass into the creative engine behind Font Awesome — the web’s favorite icon toolkit. Join host Matt Johnson and the Font Awesome crew (and friends) for deep dives into icon design, front-end engineering, software development, healthy business culture, and a whole lot of lovingly-rendered nerdery.

From technical explorations of our open-source tooling, chats with web builders, icon designers, and content creators, with the occasional gleeful rants about early internet meme culture, we bring you stories and strategies from the trenches of building modern web software — with a healthy dose of 80s references and tech dad jokes.

🎧 Perfect for:

Icon design and content-first thinking
Creative process and collaborative design
Work-life balance in tech
Remote team culture and async collaboration
Internet history, meme archaeology, and other nerd ephemera

🧠 Come for the design wisdom, stay for the deep meme cuts and beautifully crafted icons.

Guest

Travis Chase

Travis Chase is the co-founder of Font Awesome, the web’s most widely used icon toolkit—powering digital experiences for millions of developers and designers. With Dave Gandy, Travis helped transform a side project into a web staple.

Originally aiming for a career in art (then nearly accounting), Travis pivoted to web design and programming after discovering HTML and early internet infrastructure.

At Font Awesome, Travis focuses on product direction, systems design, and sustainable work culture — prioritizing deep work without burnout. When he’s not guiding product, you’ll find Travis nerding out on Star Wars: Unlimited. His belief? Great work starts with curious minds and space to play.

@supercodepoet: Developer, craftsman, entrepreneur, and co-creator of @fontawesome.