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Join us tomorrow on YouTube for a live Icon Wizard demo, a few sneak peeks at what's next, and our best attempt at building icons from your chat requests. Bring your weirdest ideas.
📅 Aug 19 at 1pm ET / 12pm CT / 10am PT → www.youtube.com/live/vKRvIfH...
https://oleandrum.github.io/dakshinamurti-stotram/ is #BuiltAwesome by Oleandrum
New release: Import v2.0.1
Bug fix for <code> import as Markdown, dependency upgrades, Node minimum bump to v20.19+
See what's new on the blog → blog.fontawesome.com/how-does-web...
Web Awesome ships a native.css layer that styles your actual HTML—headings, tables, forms, not just custom elements. Styles live in their own layer, so your CSS wins. Delete your !important declarations.
Still on Shoelace? blog.fontawesome.com/how-does...
Did you know? Eleventy v3 shipped with JavaScript front matter built-in (no plugin or extra config needed!)
Use ---js to enable it. Easier than a separate JavaScript data file!
Learn more: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/data-frontmatter/#java-script-front-matter
https://varun.ch/ is #BuiltAwesome by Varun Biniwale
Web Awesome ships a native.css layer that styles your actual HTML—headings, tables, forms, not just custom elements. Styles live in their own layer, so your CSS wins. Delete your !important declarations.
Still on Shoelace? blog.fontawesome.com/how-does...
It's genuinely delightful that a bakery in Vienna nicknamed this thing the "bun of death." A Gizmodo reader spotted it on a sign. Design nerdery has no borders.
🤝 From the desk of @spacegirl.ing: “My new Learn Eleventy course”
Learn more: www.11ty.dev/docs/config-...
Add support for Drafts (in-progress content) using this five line config. This includes draft content during --serve or --watch but not with a regular build!
https://www.joshcanhelp.com/ is #BuiltAwesome by Josh Cunningham
Susan Kare designed the original Mac's wait cursor concepts with a $2.50 sketchbook and a 32x32 pixel grid. Same method she used for the floppy disk save icon.
She is quietly responsible for a shocking amount of what you've stared at while a computer thinks.
New on the blog: Part 3 of our design systems series is the hands-on one. Visual audits, color palettes, type scales, spacing rules — the actual bones of a system that scales.
Did you know? Your robots.txt, 404 page, or sitemap.xml don't need to be files in your project. Virtual templates let you generate any output file via config (or plugin).
Read more: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/virtual-templates/
Check out 'Creation #112' from the Font Awesome Icon Gallery. fontawesome.com/icons/galler...
Curious about the new and improved Icon Wizard 2.0?
Join Jory & Noah as they share demos, answer questions, and talk all things Icon Wizard.
📅 Aug 19 at 1pm ET / 12pm CT / 10am PT → www.youtube.com/live/vKRvIfH...
https://www.sebastiankleinphotography.com/ is #BuiltAwesome 🏆 by Sebastian Klein
New episode: we chased down the actual origin story of the Mac's spinning rainbow "beach ball of death." A $10,000 flopped computer. Steve Jobs in exile. A forgotten disc format. It's all in there.
Watch -> youtu.be/MothoHNhc7E?si=6GAlU...
Listen -> www.buzzsprout.com/2092855/ep...
New release: Image Color v2.0.0
Fetch colors from any image for theming! Makes use of the new Image v7 release internally.
New v2.0.0 release of our Browsersync plugin (for folks not using the newer Dev Server): https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-server-browsersync/releases/tag/v2.0.0
The Icon Wizard gallery keeps filling up with incredible creations, and we can't stop scrolling. 👀
Here are a few of our favorites from this week. Think you can outdo them? Enter the Icon Wizard Contest for a chance to win a free year of Pro.
Check out the gallery → fontawesome.com/icons/gallery
Four ways to win: Most Useful, Most Creative, Best Remix, Funniest Icon. Pick your lane (or ignore the lanes entirely).
Want to show off your icon? Tag us!
fontawesome.com/icons/wizard
Check out "sith + chef + hat-chef + fork + knife" from the Font Awesome Icon Gallery. fontawesome.com/icons/galler...
The Icon Wizard now stacks, combines shapes, resizes, and nudges. So naturally... we're having an Icon Wizard Contest. ✨
Build something, submit it to the gallery, and you could win a year of Pro!
Get to building → fontawesome.com/icons/wizard
Turns out HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot" started as a joke RFC published on April Fools' Day 1998, and developers organized a whole movement (save418.com) to keep it in the spec when the IETF tried to remove it in 2017.
We also cover Font Awesome's own 404 pages, which are stuffed with references: Ghostbusters, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Star Wars, and a hidden Mario Easter egg on the icons page.
Watch → youtu.be/S1ftZ_Swnmg?...
WA 3.11 puts everything in its place:
📊 <wa-data-grid>, sortable, filterable, and virtualized tables
🔢 <wa-pagination> + 🔡 <wa-otp-input> for codes/PINs
🍞 <wa-toast> moves from Pro to Core, notifications for everyone
🧰 Fixes and improvements
See it all: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...
Room 404 at CERN never existed. No secret office, no missing Tim Berners-Lee. The internet's 404 origin story is completely made up, (but the legend's still fun!).
Watch → youtu.be/S1ftZ_Swnmg?...
Listen → www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/epis...
STABLE RELEASE KLAXON
Image 🖼️ v7.0.0
Release: https://github.com/11ty/image/releases/tag/v7.0.0
Docs: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/image/
Huge memory usage improvements 🎉
Thank you: Jens Tangermann, @kevinyank.com, Kirthi Balakrishnan, Valadaptive, Jorn Mineur
https://mattdoane.com/ is a personal web site #BuiltAwesome by @mattdoane.com 🏆
We are only 196 stars away from 20k stars on GitHub: https://github.com/11ty/buildawesome
Have you starred Build Awesome (11ty) yet?
Pre-release for testing: Image v7.0.0-alpha.5
So many performance improvements and fixes!
https://github.com/11ty/image/releases/tag/v7.0.0-alpha.5
Thank you to: Kirthi Balakrishnan, Jens Tangermann, Jorn Mineur
https://aphera.co is #BuiltAwesome #BuiltWithEleventy by Ryan Carver, @nazhamid.com, and Juan Pablo Zambrano!
Anecdote from the post: my Shih-tzu can identify a Starbucks before I can. Not from the sign. From pure pattern recognition built on consistent experience. If a dog can learn your brand, your users are learning your brand, too.
Part 2 of our design systems series is up: the actual components (color, type, icons, imagery, layout, UI elements) that give a design system its teeth. blog.fontawesome.com/design-s...
Part 2 of our design systems series is up: the actual components (color, type, icons, imagery, layout, UI elements) that give a design system its teeth. blog.fontawesome.com/design-s...
The Mosaic icon style has roots in Josh's Uni Calendar. Highly geometric, mid-century-ish, reusable shapes that show up differently but hold the whole set together.
The name makes sense when you hear it explained.
Watch → youtu.be/vpgC_N2s49I?...
Listen → www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/epis...
Why do some interfaces just feel right?
Spoiler: it's not just colors and components. It's visual cohesion.
We pixel-peep the details in our latest Blog Awesome. 👀
blog.fontawesome.com/visual-c...
Also in this one: the early App Store days of one-off apps that were just what they were (RIP the beer-drinking app), and whether that fun, tinkerer spirit can come back now that side projects are cheaper to ship.
An interesting part of this convo ... in the age of AI, maybe taste and discernment on what NOT to build is the new workflow bottleneck. Building has never been easier. Knowing what's worth building is the actual skill now.
New episode is out!: Josh Williams on why some software might need a final season, Gowalla/Path and "everything apps," and what AI really changes about design (it's not the building, it's about editing and taste).
Watch: youtu.be/8VGw_MduwX4
Listen: www.podcastawesome.com/episod...
Part 2 is coming next week... but first:
Catch up with Josh Williams as we talk about Mosaic, his commissioned Font Awesome Pro+ icon pack, how it came together, and why “green fields” create the best design work.
Watch → youtu.be/vpgC_N2s49I?...
Listen → www.buzzsprout.com/2092855/epis...
FA Vellum: guest designer Brian Brasher created a small-batch set of icons that are layered, overlapping slabs of visual significance. Like a good joke: it's all about those layers. Available with Font Awesome Pro+ only. fontawesome.com/icons/packs/v...
Josh's framing on AI: "Designers are realizing they're not totally at the mercy of someone more technical than them. The cost of experimentation is a lot lower."
He's not wide-eyed about it, just noticing that maybe tinkerer culture is back. Which feels right.
Some minor housekeeping: our `11ty-website` repo on GitHub has been renamed to `docs`: github.com/11ty/docs
A new Build Awesome (Eleventy) alpha is available for testing:
🥷 Using our fully async-friendly Nunjucks fork
🎁 Includes updated Bundle Plugin
📊 17 fewer dependencies than 3.1.6 (-14%)
📉 6 MB smaller than 3.1.6 (-39%)
FA Pixel: back when computers boasted 128kb of memory and a stack of quarters held your place in line at the arcade. Retro icon goodness, now available with Font Awesome Pro+, and ready to byte back! fontawesome.com/icons/packs/p...
Josh's framing on AI: "Designers are realizing they're not totally at the mercy of someone more technical than them. The cost of experimentation is a lot lower."
WA 3.10 brings you:
🍫 <wa-random-content> to randomly display one (or more!) slotted elements
👾 Support for FA 7.3 in <wa-icon>, including new Pixel, Mosaic, and Vellum Pro+ packs
🧰 A healthy set of fixes and improvements
See it all: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...
GitHub Releases [11ty/nunjucks]: Nunjucks v4.0.0-alpha.3 FULL ASYNC
https://github.com/11ty/...
New Podcast Awesome episode: Josh Williams on Mosaic icons, why he almost got fired editing Mac OS 7 system resources as a teenager, and whether the design monoculture of the last decade is finally cracking.
Part 1 is out!
Watch → youtu.be/vpgC_N2s49I?...
Listen → www.buzzsprout.com/2092855/epis...
Just to be clear: we forked Nunjucks.
The Font Awesome Pro+ icon pack Mosaic is Josh Williams breaking the mold. Mosaic is built on solid forms, swoopy curves, and lovingly placed "quirks." These icons were built with solid craft behind them. fontawesome.com/icons/packs/m...
FA 7.3 just dropped four Pro+ icon packs. Mosaic is hand-crafted with "quirks." Pixel is pure retro. Vellum is layered and loveable. Slab is back with new styles. And if you've got a Pro+ subscription, you'll get all of them. fontawesome.com/icons
A big ol’ maintenance pre-release of Nunjucks reduces library dependencies to 0, audits to 0, install size by 566 kB (828 to 262):
Coming soon to a canary release near you.
Maintainence task: our docs on 11ty.dev have moved from clean-css to LightningCSS — excited to make use of CSS nesting!
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator.
We noticed a sceptical vibe shift from the Web Awesome community. So, we took an honest look at why, and we didn't love what we found. Read the blog for the full story, and what we've already changed. blog.fontawesome.com/staying-...
The whole concept came from a book cover. Specifically the stroke contrast in the typeface on it.
Laura had one question: can you bring thick-to-thin stroke contrast into an icon system?
Nobody had really done it. She wasn't sure it would work. She did it anyway.
Watch → youtu.be/ALlNUTYC83g?...
"Oh, you know, I just spent the last hour debating one pixel."
A perfectly normal thing to say if you're an icon designer.
In the latest ep, Laura talks about why icon design is really just solving tiny puzzles all day.
Watch → youtu.be/ALlNUTYC83g?...
Listen → www.buzzsprout.com/2092855/epis...
Possumbot now has the responsibility of letting Discord folks know about GitHub releases.
🤖 We've added a new webawesome-design skill to help AI agents build better UI with Web Awesome. 🤖
Get the new skill and all of the latest hotness like <wa-checkbox-group> in WA 3.9: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...
Build Awesome and Eleventy v4.0.0-alpha.8 are now available for testing!
Using staged publish for extra security, the new Build Awesome package, and batched incremental builds! Try it out!
Laura Bohill got a brief for Font Awesome 7: make something expressive, no rules, total freedom.
Reader, she had an existential crisis.
The result is Chisel — and it's unlike anything we've released. New Podcast Awesome episode is live. 🎙️
Watch → youtu.be/ALlNUTYC83g?si=Yi-xA...
"All capability and no character is just a supervillain."
Dave said that, and we beat this drum over and over: character has to come before the capability. Both for people and for how we adopt tools.
Dave Gandy's color visualizer ended up looking like stained glass. He'd just visited the Sagrada Família and that's where his head was. The AI didn't replace his taste. It gave his taste somewhere to go, faster.
Try it on webawesome.com, then give it a try in your own project.
SSR docs: webawesome.com/docs/ssr
They said it couldn't be done.
We did it anyway.
SSR is available in Web Awesome 3.8. We're calling it experimental, but it won't stay that way for long.
We ran Build Week at Font Awesome, which was a full week of just building with AI, no deliverables required. The surprise wasn't how much the AI did. It was where it helped most.
We did a write up on our blog with what we found: blog.fontawesome.com/using-ai...
Dave's rule for interviewing: ask questions above their pay grade. Questions about layoffs, hiring booms, and how leadership responded in hard moments.
Blank stare? You have your answer. You probably don't need to wait for the rest.
Watch → youtu.be/IpjlsPF5lsk?...
⏰ It's about time! ⏰
We know you've been waiting for a date, so WA 3.8 is hitting the town with:
📅 <wa-date-picker> and <wa-date-input>
🎂 <wa-known-date>
⌚️ <wa-time-input>
🪗 <wa-accordion>
⚙️ SSR support
For all of the updates you won't want to miss: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...
🎬 Ever wonder what it takes to make a 4-minute Kickstarter video?
Apparently: a full film crew, a kitchen set, a puppet in an Eleventy t-shirt, and some very questionable creative decisions.
Go behind the scenes 👀 youtu.be/3rhilRoWZUw?...
"Lifestyle business" gets used as an insult. Dave Gandy disagrees. If your only bottom line is cash, that's your lifestyle. Hope it was worth it.
New Podcast Awesome with FA founder Dave Gandy on what it actually costs to build a place worth working. 🎙️
Watch → youtu.be/IpjlsPF5lsk?...
Eleventy Core v3.1.6 fixes `module.register` deprecation warning shown in console when using Node v26.
Our Kickstarter campaign finishes at 313% funded: thank you!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
We’re working towards the goal of making it easier for everyone to have a web site!
Two hours.
Early access pricing ends when the campaign does. Back it now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Psst! The campaign is over in a few hours! If you've been watching and waiting, this is the moment.
Thanks for following along. You're all great. 🙏
Last day. Back Build Awesome before it's gone.
Publish sites for $29. Edit visually. Collaborate live. Grow a newsletter. Self-host or use ours. Export everything, full history, no lock-in.
Early access pricing ends today.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
One day left on the Build Awesome Pro Kickstarter. Early access pricing, the vinyl possum figurine, all of it — gone tomorrow. Back it now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
48 hours left to back Build Awesome Pro at early access pricing. The 'possum hasn't slept, and the countdown is real.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Only 179 million milliseconds left to lock in early pricing of Build Awesome Pro: starting at $29 for a *year*. And you get to keep that price when renewing too!
"Lifestyle business" gets used as an insult. Dave disagrees. If your only bottom line is cash, that's your lifestyle. Hope it was worth it.
New Podcast Awesome with FA founder Dave Gandy on what it actually costs to build a place worth working. 🎙️ www.podcastawesome.com/209285...
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Since Web Awesome SSR is still fairly experimental, I decided to add a toggle for SSR to see what a a page may look like (not deployed yet, still fixing some ssr issues) but figured i'd share a preview.
🚨 One week left! 🚨
$77K raised 🤯 Build Awesome Pro brings in-browser editing, live collaboration, and quick site updates without spinning up your whole dev environment.
Early bird pricing disappears when the campaign ends 👀
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Batched Incremental Builds™ — coming soon.
Coming soon to an alpha release (v4.0.0-alpha.8) near you: More efficient incremental builds when the build queue has multiple changes waiting.
Friendlier to Save All from your editor or switching git branches with lots of file changes.
Coming soon to an alpha release (v4.0.0-alpha.8) near you: More efficient incremental builds when the build queue has multiple changes waiting.
Friendlier to Save All from your editor or switching git branches with lots of file changes.
Try it here: webawesome.com/docs/compone...
We made it easier for you to find exactly the component you need on our new components page.
UX challenge: can this section of the Print dialog be improved?
What would you do differently?
