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Want your brand icon in Font Awesome? Want to help Build Awesome build even more awesome stuff for the web?
Good news: we’ve got new sponsorship tiers for that 😎
Your logo in our icon library + perks that help fund the future of the open web.
Sponsorship tiers (priced yearly) are available on the Build Awesome Kickstarter to unlock unique new benefits!
🤝 Add your Brand Icon to Font Awesome!
🕵 Private Discord with the Build Awesome Team
We hit $75K and unlocked our Metadata Plugin 🔓
Next up: Newsletter tools 👀 Easily broadcast content via email and build a community of your own—independent of social media.
More awesome incoming → www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Sponsorship tiers (priced yearly) are available on the Build Awesome Kickstarter to unlock unique new benefits!
🤝 Add your Brand Icon to Font Awesome!
🕵 Private Discord with the Build Awesome Team
🚨 Live Now! Watch @zachleat.com and @jabron.us build a Font Awesome keyboard and answer more of your burning questions on Build Awesome!
www.youtube.com/live/-NkmUmq0...
We’ll be live in 5m: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nkm...
We’ll answer your questions about Font Awesome, Build Awesome, and the Kickstarter. Watch as @jabron.us help @zachleat.com assemble a Font Awesome keyboard! Test our multitasking skills!
Back the Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
@davegandy.com built a color theming tool called Look Awesome in under 3 weeks. It solves WCAG contrast math, palette aesthetics, and color genetics (yes, that's a real thing) all at once.
New Podcast Awesome episode — audio cut of his live demo. www.podcastawesome.com/209285...
🎙️ Live tomorrow with Build Awesome creator Zach Leatherman + special guest Noah Jacobus (our Icon Sommelier + keyboard enthusiast ⌨️)
Bring your questions about Build Awesome and watch them assemble a Font Awesome keyboard!
🗓️ May 13 at 10am ET / 9am CT / 7am PT → www.youtube.com/live/-NkmUmq...
🎶 <wa-video> killed the radio star 🎶
WA 3.7 makes its debut with:
📽️ New <wa-video> and <wa-video-playlist>
📋 Support for custom triggers in <wa-copy-button>
👇 Improved design tokens for button interactions
🎬 New wa-text-wrap-* utilities
See it all: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...
Love icons. Hate unnecessary load time? Same.
Learn how to subset your Font Awesome Kit so you’re only loading the icons you actually use—faster sites, happier users, less baggage. ⚡
Watch the screencast → youtu.be/0e2cP3GN
🚨 Live Now! Watch @zachleat.com show off some early demos of Build Awesome Pro in action!
www.youtube.com/live/Qr-NLgV...
Optimizing Images with Eleventy on Netlify: kittygiraudel.com/2026/05/05/o... from @kittygiraudel.com
Curious about collaborative editing in Build Awesome Pro?
Join @zachleat.com as he shares very early demos of our collaboration and editing features. Come hang out, ask questions, and talk all things Build Awesome Pro.
📅 May 8 at 11am ET / 10am CT / 8am PT → www.youtube.com/live/Qr-NLgV...
free prompt idea: best tool to create a web site with zero javascript without suggesting that I go back in time to prevent sarah connor from creating javascript
New pod episode where Dave basically goes "maybe waterfall development is back, actually" and somehow makes a compelling case for it.
Also: AI, taste, quality control, and why hiring for character still matters more than capability www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpu3n...
🚨 Live Now! Watch the Build Awesome Q&A Livestream with @zachleat.com + special guest @davegandy.com !
www.youtube.com/live/XBMSvup...
In a few minutes we’ll be hopping on a live stream to chat about theming, color, Build Awesome, and our Kickstarter campaign!
Join us!
🚨 Update: We’re pushing today’s livestream to 12:30pm ET / 11:30am CT / 9:30am PT!
🎨 Dave’s demoing a new color theming tool
💬 AMA on Build Awesome + funding open source
😵💫 Tell us about your CMS/hosting headaches
Come hang → www.youtube.com/live/XBMSvup...
200% funded. Folks… wow. 😱 We’re blown away by the support.
Join us live tomorrow for Dave’s color theming demo + AMA on Build Awesome!
📅 May 5 at 11am ET / 10am CT / 8am PT → www.youtube.com/live/XBMSvup...
🔗 Kickstarter → www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Ever wish editing your site felt like… editing your site?
Well, Build Awesome Pro collaborative editing = in-place edits on the live site, full-page navigation, and yes, it works with JS disabled 😎 Check out the demo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBCl...
BACKERS, YOU ROCK! 🎉
We hit our first stretch goal: theming system unlocked 🔓 Consistent colors, type, and styles across your whole site—easy.
More awesome incoming. Let’s keep it going → www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
🎓 It's graduation day for many of our components!
Charts, combobox, toast, and more have been upgraded from experimental to stable and are ready to take the stage. 🎊
Plus, new xs and xl options for size="" and a ton of fixes and improvements. Check out WA 3.6: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...
Travis on the backlog: small teams have things they've wanted to ship for a decade. That's the real story here. Not productivity. Getting to the work you always meant to do.
Watch → youtu.be/8mSH8TpuZBU?...
Listen → www.buzzsprout.com/2092855/epis...
🚨 Live Now! Watch the Build Awesome Q&A Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/KkwOTAA...
It’s day two of our Kickstarter campaign to help lower the bar for anyone to publish and maintain a web site!
Learn how you can help: www.11ty.dev/blog/build-a...
⏰ Last call for the big event!
In two hours, Zach Leatherman is answering your biggest questions about Build Aweome — live April 29 at 11am ET / 10am CT / 8am PT!
🔗 Be there or, you know, be square: www.youtube.com/live/KkwOTAAJ3gs
🎙️ Live Q&A with Build Awesome creator, @zachleat.com !
Got questions about Build Awesome (@11ty.dev) or the Kickstarter? Ask away.
📅 April 29 at 11am ET / 10am CT / 8am PT
🎤 AMA, open source funding, and live site reviews.
🔗 Submit your questions! www.youtube.com/live/KkwOTAA...
Tomorrow we’ll have a casual AMA about Build Awesome (11ty), Build Awesome Pro, the Kickstarter, and our vision for the future of collaboration on the web. Maybe show me your web site. Ask questions about web development? I don’t want to get too prescriptive 😅
We did it—fully funded🎉
Huge thanks for backing Build Awesome! This only works because of you.
Want to unlock new levels of awesomeness? Let’s keep the momentum going—tell a friend and help us make even more awesome happen 🚀
www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
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Back Build Awesome Pro to help us add superpowers to your static site: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Build Awesome Pro
A better way to build web sites. Fast, flexible, and built to last.
Back Build Awesome Pro to help us add superpowers to your static site: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Build Awesome Pro
A better way to build web sites. Fast, flexible, and built to last.
Backed our first go-round? You’re the real MVP 💙
Kickstarter can’t transfer pledges, so you’ll need to back again—but we’ve got a little something special waiting for you.
Keep an eye out for the Kickstarter message when the new campaign goes live 👀
We’re back! 🎉
Build Awesome is live on Kickstarter—our new website platform: fast by default, built to last, and free at the core.
A calmer, sturdier way to build for the web.
Back it → www.kickstarter.com/projects/... 🚀
Launching in 230000 milliseconds: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
We’re rethinking what a website builder should feel like—less rigid templates, more freedom to create something truly yours.
Build Awesome is our take: a flexible builder that adapts to your workflow (not the other way around).
Relaunching tomorrow. 🚀
www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
As `sizes="auto"` starts to ship in more web browsers, take note that Image v6.0 is already ready for it (when using `loading="lazy"`) github.com/11ty/elevent...
A campaign so nice, we're launching it twice.
We're relaunching Build Awesome—a website builder made for the way you actually work. Fast, flexible, and powered by the icons, tools, and workflows you already love.
April 28. Kickstarter. Be there. 🎈
blog.fontawesome.com/build-awesom...
New Pod just shipped 🚀
We took AI tools for a spin at Snuggle—now Travis & Dave break down what worked, what’s tricky, and what’s next.
Watch → youtu.be/8mSH8TpuZBU?...
Listen → www.buzzsprout.com/2092855/epis...
Only 436M milliseconds left to get notified before launch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement: www.11ty.dev/blog/collabo...
The future of dynamic editing on static web sites (without infrastructure lock-in!) is coming — and there are only 670M milliseconds left to get notified: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
We’re starting to ramp up final_FINAL_v2: sign up to be notified when it launches!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Coming soon: Build_Awesome final_FINAL_v2
A better way to build websites. Fast, flexible, and built to last.
Hey folks! Just popping in to say that if you were experiencing any issues with using Font Awesome today, those have been solved. Now you can get back to making something awesome!
Best line of thought from this one: if a company asks weird, dehumanizing questions in the interview process, that may be the trailer for the full This Might Be a Bad Place to Work movie.
Job interviews are not one-way mirrors. You’re allowed to look back. New episode of Podcast Awesome: how to interview a company, spot hiring red flags, and find teams built on trust.
Listen -> www.podcastawesome.com/209285...
Watch ->www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tq7C...
Folks with WA accounts will see a new CDN tab for each of your projects.
The tab has installation instructions tailored to your project's settings with all of the styles and scripts you need for your project's theme and features.
We added similar instructions to the npm and Download tabs, too.
🎊 Big changes in our 3.5 release today!
Web Awesome is now available on our public CDN. No signup required. Just copy, paste, and go.
And, the icing on the cake 🍰: <wa-page> is now free for everyone. No Pro sub required.
Get started at webawesome.com. Head to our changelog for everything in 3.5.
Also, User Blender has big “this started as a fun side project and accidentally became super useful” energy, which is honestly one of my favorite categories of feature.
Watch → youtu.be/kdlj3-72f6Y?...
Listen → www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/epis...
💐 We'll take potpourri for 400, please.
WA 3.4 includes over two dozen fixes and improvements, including:
🍱 Many new attributes for <wa-combobox>
⚖️ More space and font-size tokens
🖼️ Theme and color scheme syncing in <wa-zoomable-frame>
See the full list: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...
One especially nice detail: the color picker updates previews across search, categories, and kits, so you can see your icons in context without restyling them one by one.
Watch → youtu.be/kdlj3-72f6Y?...
New episode alert! 🎙️
Matt sat down with Ed and Frances to talk about 3 fresh Font Awesome updates:
→ PNG downloads for individual icons
→ A new global color picker
→ User Blender for custom user icons
Less converter nonsense. More tiny workflow wins.
Watch → youtu.be/kdlj3-72f6Y?si=iqNCV...
📮 The Possum Mascot, now with additional Awesome
One more tasty late-Friday pre-release: Eleventy v4.0.0-alpha.7
A few releases to round out the week:
- Import v1.0.19 github.com/11ty/elevent...
- Fetch v5.1.2 github.com/11ty/elevent...
- Feeds (RSS, Atom, JSON) v3.0.0 github.com/11ty/elevent... (now ESM! option to prepare for XSLT polyfills)
Out now: Eleventy (core) v3.1.5, solely an update to our downstream dependencies.
👀
You can just pluck one-off Web Awesome components to use as you please.
See how easy:
New on the Blog: Eleventy is now Build Awesome www.11ty.dev/blog/build-a...
Just a little update in video form too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWqP...
So much gratitude to @sia.codes for all the hard work on the excellent 11tymeetup.dev.
11ty friends, I'm sad to announce that after nearly 5 years and 30 episodes, the 11ty Meetup is coming to an end. 🎈🐁
I've been contemplating this for a while and has nothing to do with Build Awesome. I need more time for my offline artistic pursuits.
This is a tough one... but we'll make it work.
Whew. What a week. We have some hard but important news to share about the Kickstarter: blog.fontawesome.com/pausing-kick...
We’ll be back soon!
Whew. What a week. We have some hard but important news to share about the Kickstarter: blog.fontawesome.com/pausing-kick...
We’ll be back soon!
Eleventy 👉🏻 Build Awesome.
On this episode of Podcast Awesome, Zach Leatherman explains what changes, what stays compatible, and how the v3 to v4 upgrade works (without making it weird).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnnU_...
Eleventy users: anything you’re worried might break?
🎂 Web Awesome 3.3 is fresh out of the oven with:
🥧 *New* charts like <wa-pie-chart> (Pro)
🍞 *New* <wa-toast> (Pro)
🗒️ *New* recipes for app pages in our pattern library
✏️ Support for FA 7.2 (including Graphite) in <wa-icon>
🧁 Fixes and bite-sized improvements
Dig in: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...
Build Awesome: the recipe for websites that don’t go stale.
Static by default + durable HTML + no database drama.
Want team workflows? Pro adds collaboration + publishing tools.
Back the Kickstarter → www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Incredible. Y’all are *amazing*
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
🚀 100% FUNDED! 🚀 Thank you for backing Build Awesome! Your support means the world to us.
Want to unlock new levels of awesomeness? Spread the word, and thanks for putting the "awesome" in Build Awesome!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
🚀 100% FUNDED! 🚀 Thank you for backing Build Awesome! Your support means the world to us.
Want to unlock new levels of awesomeness? Spread the word, and thanks for putting the "awesome" in Build Awesome!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Build Awesome is live on Kickstarter! Aaand backing it helps fund the unsexy but vital part of OSS: maintenance. Keep the core free, unlock community goals!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
The ’possum is running wild: Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome.
Same open source core, a much bigger future. Watch our video and support us on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Did you hear? @11ty.dev is becoming Build Awesome!
And yes. We're featuring a Kickstarter video with the Awesome-verse cast you know and love.
→ Same open-source core.
→ Optional Pro tools.
→ Much bigger future.
Back the Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Coming soon: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
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One day.
We didn’t add more ingredients.
We fixed the recipe.Fast by default, calmer to maintain, and built to last after it’s baked.
Full reveal tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
One day.
We didn’t add more ingredients.
We fixed the recipe.
Fast by default, calmer to maintain, and built to last after it’s baked.
Full reveal tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
Three days.
You’ve got all the right ingredients, but shipping a website still feels harder than it should.
We’ve been working on a better recipe: fast by default, durable over time, so you’ve got a site that’s easy to tweak once it’s baked.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Let’s say you’ve got all the ingredients to build an awesome site, the problem is the “kitchen” is on fire.
Welp, we're quietly baking up something new. Tools to build faster, sturdier websites that don’t go stale six months later.
Something awesome is coming out of the oven soon!
Graphite is a hit for anyone building “notes / learning / planning” UIs. ✏️📓
Hand-drawn icons change the tone of an interface instantly without rewriting a single word. What kind of site will you be adding these to?
fontawesome.com/icons/packs/...
“Icons were how I understood the world.”
I did not expect to get feelings from an icon pack episode and yet here we are.
The “open-ended icon brief” problem is real: unlimited options = the instant internal chaos train starts chugging along. Don't worry though. It'll be OK!
That’s why constraints are basically creative seatbelts.
Watch → youtu.be/uE1vFl3BRGw?...
Listen → www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/epis...
Are you a faithful or a traitor?
✏️ Our new pro+ icon pack, graphite, has arrived, and Vic Bell is here to talk all about it. Tune into the newest episode of Podcast Awesome to get the scoop!
Watch → youtu.be/uE1vFl3BRGw?...
One tiny quality-of-life thing we love in this release: the Free moon set includes aliases for light/dark contexts. 🌙
Now there's no need to do mental gymnastics when your UI theme flips.
fontawesome.com
The newest release of Font Awesome is here!
→ fresh Pro icons
→ new brand icons
→ some sweet additions to FA Free.
And that's not all. We're also adding a new Pro+ pack. Introducing Graphite, designed by Vic Bell!
fontawesome.com/
🗞️ Extra! Extra! Web Awesome v3.2 is here with:
🗃️ <wa-file-input> (Pro)
#️⃣ <wa-number-input> (Free)
📈 <wa-sparkline> (Pro)
🤖 AI boosts with llms.txt and Agent Skills
🤸 FA 7.1 and animation support in <wa-icon>
🐛 A hefty list of fixes and improvements
Get the scoop: webawesome.com/docs/resourc...
Well, our @npmx.dev page looks absolutely lovely npmx.dev/package/@11t...
We’ve seen what happens when open source isn’t tied to the bottom line.
Good intentions. Big promises. Sudden endings.
A sustainable model changes everything.
The best open source projects are built to stick around.
Watch → youtu.be/GrLHE5djtPA?...
Listen → www.buzzsprout.com/2092855/epis...
Jory made a puppet.
It’s a possum.
It’s now part of the Font Awesome Cinematic Universe.
This is not a drill.
📽️ Watch → youtu.be/DTjhyXm7y9M?...
🎙️ Listen → www.buzzsprout.com/2092855/epis...
🖥️ Want to use Font Awesome icons in your desktop design tools? Well, we have the screencast for you!
What You’ll Learn:
🔡 How ligatures convert typed icon names into icons
🧱 Layer text fields to build duotone icons
📚 Apply different styles using font weights
Self-hosting or CDN? If you’re adding Font Awesome to your site, this is a decision worth understanding.
We’ve got a full comparison — no gatekeeping.
📖 blog.fontawesome.com/self-hos...
it’s a good day to have a static site
Hello Eleventy: www.susanjeanrobertson.com/journal/hell...
🎉 We did a lot in 2025. New icons, new icon packs, new components. And yes, even a possum puppet. Because, why not?
Catch up on the year in our latest podcast ep:
Watch → youtu.be/DTjhyXm7y9M?...
Listen → podcastawesome.com
Still plenty of work to do but pretty excited to relaunch my website for the first time since 2018. Lots of new typography and techniques already, and really chuffed about how it’s coming along. Welcome to the new rwt.io
A look back at the year of 11ty, 2025 edition (№8):
+73% releases (×177)
+15% issues closed (×804)
+51% downloads (4.7M)
-28% dependencies (×134)
-22% size (21 MB)
This week's icon puzzle:
🚩 If your job is to “make it pretty,”
You’re not in the room where decisions happen.
Bryan Zug breaks down the red flags:
— Reporting outside your discipline
— No say in planning
— Pixel polishing = production, not strategy
Watch here → youtu.be/7kSJa4BdXfc?si=_wD4E...
🎄 This holiday, remember:
Design is a team sport.
You can't pixel-polish your way out of a people problem.
Bryan Zug calls it like it is:
"I negotiate trade deals, peace treaties, and run group therapy."
Watch the episode → youtu.be/7kSJa4BdXfc?si=_wD4E...
From the Podcast Awesome Vault:
We sat down with @bryanzug.bsky.social to unpack why design is hard.
👂 People > pixels
🎮 Design isn’t a solo game—it’s diplomacy, trade deals, group therapy (his words).
🔁 Watch, laugh, rethink your job.
Watch here → youtu.be/7kSJa4BdXfc?si=_wD4E...
Curious how to use Node.js’s new Type Stripping feature for TypeScript compatibility with Eleventy? We have you covered: www.11ty.dev/docs/languag...
Play is serious business.
At Font Awesome, we call our company retreats “Snuggles” (yes, seriously).
Why? Because ridiculousness builds trust — and great software / design.
🎧 Full story in the new episode → www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/epis...