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Blog Awesome
Company blog · blog.fontawesome.comdesignweb
Blog Awesome is the company blog at blog.fontawesome.com, writing about design and web. Since 2017, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Shoelace Joins Font Awesome”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Font Awesome's blog for company news, including Shoelace joining Font Awesome, the end of Eleventy and the Kickstarter pause, and a post on email reputation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
News and information from Font Awesome – the internet’s favorite icon set; mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
Most-linked posts?
- Shoelace Joins Font Awesome3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-18
- /we-have-a-99-email-reputation-gmail-disagrees/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-12
- /pausing-kickstarter/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-12
What Hacker News says?
Also note, Shoelace was built by a Microsoft engineer, Cory LaViska. He left to work on Shoelace full-time[0] after it was acquired by FontAwesome. [0]: https://blog.fontawesome.com/shoelace-joins-font-awesome/
Comment linking /shoelace-joins-font-awesome/
on “Shoelace: A library of web components”Submitted Duotone, a beautiful new icon style by Font Awesome as a story · 8 points
HN discussionCory (the creator) actually works at FontAwesome now. FontAwesome purchased the library ~1yr ago and hired Cory to work on the library full time as well. https://blog.fontawesome.com/shoelace-joins-font-awesome/
Comment linking /shoelace-joins-font-awesome/
on “Shoelace: A library of web components”Submitted Shoelace Joins Font Awesome as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHowdy y’all! Eleventy maintainer and member of Font Awesome here. Just saw this (I don’t regularly read HN). Looks like someone shared the staging URL for the old FA WordPress blog on HN? I’ve updated the WordPress staging site to redirect to the new Build Awesome/Eleventy version at blog.fontawesome.com so that it doesn’t happen again. Sorry about that! You can read about the 2025 dogfood migration here: https://bl…
Comment linking /blog-awesome-to-11ty/
on “We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees”Submitted Font Awesome Sharp as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Why is this blog on a sudomain of wpcomstaging.com? I find it ironic that they "acquired" Eleventy and are developing Build Awesome Pro [1], but can't bring themselves to dogfood it. They do have an alpha version of it, right? [1] https://blog.fontawesome.com/pausing-kickstarter/
Comment linking /pausing-kickstarter/
on “We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees”Submitted Covid-19 Awareness Icons from FontAwesome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe official blog is here: https://blog.fontawesome.com/we-have-a-99-email-reputation-g...
Comment linking /we-have-a-99-email-reputation-gmail-disagrees/
on “We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees”Submitted Web Awesome, the web component library from Font Awesome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBetter link: https://blog.fontawesome.com/we-have-a-99-email-reputation-g...
Comment linking /we-have-a-99-email-reputation-gmail-disagrees/
on “We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees”Submitted Shoelace 2.0 Is Official as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFrom March, also https://blog.fontawesome.com/we-have-a-99-email-reputation-g... is the canonical URL.
Comment linking /we-have-a-99-email-reputation-gmail-disagrees/
on “We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees”Submitted How I Built Space Awesome with Vue.JS (not my project, just a great post) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis. Totally confusing. Sounded like a very successful campaign, met goal. Why is the rest of that blog post ( https://blog.fontawesome.com/pausing-kickstarter/ ) so negative and like it's a big disappointment? Like Font Awesome was expecting some lengthy constantly growing source of income from it? So weird. (and also, first I'm seeing anything about this or given any reason to pay attention to what Font Awesome i…
Comment linking /pausing-kickstarter/
on “The End of Eleventy”Submitted Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Font Awesome Desktop Subsetter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Quest for a Lean and Mean Font Awesome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Power Transforms in Font Awesome 5 as a story · 1 points
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