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

Dave Gandy

Dave Gandy is the founder and original creator of Font Awesome, the web’s most popular icon toolkit. A developer-designer with a passion for elegant UX and open-source tooling, Dave launched Font Awesome in 2012 to make scalable vector icons easy to use and universally accessible. What began as a project for Bootstrap quickly exploded into a global design standard, used by millions of developers, designers, and brands worldwide.

Driven by a love for clean design and functional creativity, Dave has led Font Awesome’s evolution from a simple icon set to also include powerful tools for deep integration with the web's most popular frameworks.

When he’s not crafting icons or innovating developer tools, Dave can be found nerding out about sci-fi, typography, or wrangling vintage Star Wars memorabilia.

@FontAwesome and other things. YC, MIT, MO alum.