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Web Awesome, the web component library from Font Awesome(blog.fontawesome.com)
1 points by fortawesome 2y ago|1 comments
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Font Awesome (YC S15) Is Hiring a Remote, US-Based Product Designer(blog.fontawesome.com)
1 points by fortawesome 3y ago
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by fortawesome 4y ago
I just looked over the plans page, and I didn’t see anything. Can you screenshot the false claims for me? Would love to get that fixed up.
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by fortawesome 4y ago
Sorry about this. The amount of engineering required is pretty high for making downgrade work, and we’re a small team. With limited time for new work, we end up prioritizing new features over making downgrade easy. (I’ll be honest, it’s alw
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by fortawesome 4y ago
Cory's announcement: https://www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/the-future-of-shoelace/
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Shoelace Joins Font Awesome(blog.fontawesome.com)
7 points by fortawesome 4y ago|1 comments
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Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR(theverge.com)
41 points by fortawesome 8y ago|21 comments
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Font Awesome 5 Released – new icons, styles, SVG, ligatures, and more(fontawesome.com)
36 points by fortawesome 9y ago|6 comments
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by fortawesome 10y ago
Not sure on the 1000/visitors/site/day. But we're also on some pretty big sites as well. IIRC, the final number there is higher than what MaxCDN (BootstrapCDN folks) serves. Not by much though. Within an order of magnitu
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by fortawesome 10y ago
73 million sites comes from our friends at Meanpath (their search engine isn't running anymore, sadly). They showed us on 7.3% of websites. Best guess is there are about a billion sites on the internet. Thus, 73 million.
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by fortawesome 10y ago
(Oh and FA5 Pro CDN will allow loading just the icon categories you need. And for real granular control, FA5 Pro includes a desktop subsetter for all backers too.) Edit: Fixed wording for clarity.
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by fortawesome 10y ago
This is a great article. Some of these are already on the agenda for FA5, but there's some new stuff there for us too. We'll dig in and it's a TODO on the FA5 roadmap now. :) Another thing I'm super excited about is stra
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by fortawesome 10y ago
> If you are willing to accept a bit more advice: Don't rely on that. We aren't entirely. But we've had 15 million folks on Font Awesome in the past year. Not all of them have seen the Kickstarter, so we're hoping som
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by fortawesome 10y ago
We posted the info he's referencing elsewhere in the thread. We're used on roughly 1 in every 3 new websites that gets made.
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by fortawesome 10y ago
They can always gift it to another student. :)
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by fortawesome 10y ago
Yeah, it shouldn't be confusing! We extended early backer pricing for the whole Kickstarter, so the Personal / SMB license would have been $40. Only difference is who can use the license. Student license is for students only. But
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by fortawesome 10y ago
They're back! Was just a hiccup. :)
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by fortawesome 10y ago
Three things come to mind right away that seems like contributed to folks pulling the trigger and buying: 1. Pent up good will from using Font Awesome over the past 4 years. 2. The product was something folks actually wanted and the price w
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by fortawesome 10y ago
I've always thought this article was reasonable: https://benfrain.com/seriously-use-icon-fonts/
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by fortawesome 10y ago
> Please be extremely frugal with your money. We are and will continue to be so. Two of us are sharing a 100 square foot office that we're subletting from a bigger startup. The other two of us work from home. We have no interest in
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by fortawesome 10y ago
That's another one of the big things. We didn't talk about this one specifically, as it's not as common for folks to have. 1.5M uniques a month has come in handy, that's for sure.
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by fortawesome 10y ago
We tried doing some Facebook advertising ourselves, but it didn't go so well. Jellop has done better, but they're REALLY great for products that have mass appeal. With our narrower audience, the Font Awesome website has been the b
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by fortawesome 10y ago
You can indeed! Font Awesome Pro CDN will be free for open source projects. :)
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by fortawesome 10y ago
> it pays to hire some pros. It certainly does. Arguably the best money our company has ever spent. (Okay, salaries. Because we have a ridiculously amazing team.)
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by fortawesome 10y ago
Somewhat surprisingly, I've normally found this view to be more common with US based folks. I personally prefer icon fonts for a large swath of reasons, but other folks prefer SVG. So we're making both. :)
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by fortawesome 10y ago
I think we'd be fine with that. Seems removed enough and isn't the whole set. It's a good area for us to think about and be more specific about. I'll talk to the team and see what we can do.
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by fortawesome 10y ago
Admittedly, we've been a bit light on specifics for price. But that's only because I'm worried it will undervalue Knox Avenue. Those folks can get by with charging a LOT more than they charged us. Sandwich Video (a much bigge
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by fortawesome 10y ago
Yep, we definitely took inspiration from there!
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by fortawesome 10y ago
If someone can see a font, they can pirate it. We just don't want to make it really, really easy.
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by fortawesome 10y ago
Nope. Folks will be able to use just certain icon packs on their site. For more granular control, the $350k goal was a desktop icon subsetter.

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