Was working at the first company I founded and was sick of dealing with other people's bad icons and Photoshop. Started kicking around some ideas for using fonts to serve the icons and overcome some of the problems screen readers had.

That project became Font Awesome. 6 years later and it's on about 200m websites.

In a lot of ways, this still feels like the soul of the site from the mid-90s still. Design looks solid and flexible as the spotlight rotates on a regular basis.

My primary problem is still that awful logo from the redesign in the late 90's. I get they're trying to be techie and all. But they're MIT. They already are. They don't need to project it.

Much agreed. We're working on it. :)

We love open source and have gotten so much ourselves from other folks' generosity. We continually get told we give too much away for free. And we do, gladly.

You've read our mind. Though we have a lot of Kickstarter rewards still to finish (46 icon category packs, anyone?) before we get there.

Oh man. The set of Space Shuttle icons are my absolute favorites: https://fontawesome.com/icons/space-shuttle?style=solid

Happy to answer any questions or criticisms!

This shot is trolling, right? Or serious?

Fantastic designer. Just bought the book.

And here's a great talk of his: https://vimeo.com/39441590. One of my favorites.