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.

Co-host

Jory Raphael

Jory Raphael is the Lead Designer at Font Awesome, where his distinct visual style and meticulous iconography help shape one of the web’s most beloved design tools. Prior to his work with FA, he also created Symbolicons, a popular vector icon set used globally.

Outside of FA, Jory is a dad, children's book illustrator-in-progress, and maple syrup aficionado (yes, daily pancakes are real). His side projects span wayfinding, branding, and tees like the internet-famous Sportsball. He’s also behind imaginative titles like The Day the Signs Went for a Walk, combining storytelling with design education.

Whether designing interfaces, illustrating thousands of icons, or dreaming up stories about signage and rock giants, Jory brings curiosity, clarity, and charm to everything he creates.

Designer, Illustrator, Occasional Actor. Principal Designer + Icon Design Lead @fontawesome.

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