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.
Podcast Awesome
Pro+, New Styles & Not Dog Icons? Welcome to Font Awesome 7!
Font Awesome 7 Here We Come!
In this episode of Podcast Awesome, we’re serving up a heaping helping of new icons, fresh features, and ProPlus goodness with Font Awesome 7! Host Matt Johnson is joined by icon designers Jory Raphael and Noah Jacobus to break down what’s new — like seven all-new icon packs, a smoother-than-butter upgrade path, and under-the-hood improvements that make your icons sharper, faster, and slicker than ever.
Is it too many icons? Maybe. Are we going to stop? Absolutely not.
🎙️ Listen in as we talk about the design tweaks, ProPlus perks, and the iconic (heh) collabs that made Font Awesome 7 a reality. Plus, we drop some exclusive details on the biggest sale of the year!
💥 Don’t miss out — hit play and then ... Go make something awesome.
Timestamp Summary
🌟 0:00 | Font Awesome 7 Launch: New Icons and Features Unveiled
🚀 3:37 | Font Awesome 7 Enhancements and New Pro Plus Icon Packs
🎨 9:24 | Icon Designers Unleash Creativity with Font Awesome Pro Packs
🌌 17:18 | Creative Icon Design Inspired by Silicon Valley and Cosmic Events
🧠 21:09 | Innovative Icon Design and Preparation for Launch
✏️ 24:00 | Creating Art with Thumbprint Drawings and Icon Packs
🧭 24:48 | Creative Exploration and Unique Icon Design Inspirations
🔍 29:17 | Exploring Icon Packs and Their Creative Development
📦 32:05 | Font Awesome 7 Launches With New Plans and Icon Packs
📣 34:57 | Font Awesome 7 Pro Plus Icon Packs and Marketing Ideas
Resources & Links
- 🎶 The Podcast Awesome theme song was composed by Ronnie Martin: https://ronniemartin.org/
- 🎵 Music interstitials by Zach Malm: https://muzach.bandcamp.com/
- 🎛️ Audio mastering by Chris Enns at Lemon Productions: https://www.lemonproductions.ca/
- "After School Keyboard Club" https://pixabay.com/music/video-games-after-school-keyboard-club-casio-vl-tone-80s-chiptune-retro-151684/
- Font Awesome on the Socials
- 🌤️ Bluesky: @fontawesome.com
- 🐦 Twitter/X: @fontawesome
- 📸 Instagram: @font.awesome
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