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
Latest Episodes
Hiring Is a Two-Way Street — Here’s What Most People Miss
Job interviews aren’t just about proving you’re a fit — they’re about figuring out whether the company deserves you, too. 👀In this episode, Matt chats with Font Awesome founder Dave Gandy about why hiring is a two-way street. They unpac...
New Font Awesome Features: PNG Downloads, Color Picker, and User Blender
In this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt sits down with Ed and Francis to talk through three newly shipped Font Awesome features that are small, practical, and just the right amount of fun. They dig into individual PNG downloads, a new <...
Eleventy Is Rebranding to Build Awesome: What Changes (and What Doesn’t)
Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome — and Zach Leatherman is here to explain what that actually means.In this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt has a chat with Zach about the Build Awesome Kickstarter, why this rebrand is p...
Vic Bell on Designing Graphite: Hand-Drawn Icons for Font Awesome
In this episode, Matt and Jory sit down with UK-based icon designer + illustrator Vic Bell to talk about the brand-new Font Awesome icon pack, Graphite — a loose, hand-drawn set that brings texture, depth, and a whole lot of human personality t...
How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality
Eleventy started as a side project. Now it’s a critical infrastructure for thousands of websites.TL;DR: Open source isn’t broken. But the way we fund it often is. Let’s talk about what actually works.In this episode, we s...
