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Joe Steinbring

Font Awesome

An icon library available as fonts and SVGs. It sits under CSS because it is used the same way a component library is — dropped in and referenced by class — and it supplies the icons used across this site.

I use Font Awesome to provide a consistent visual language for navigation, metadata, and interface actions.

Articles written
3
CodePen pens written
5
Official website
fontawesome.com
Age
14 years (since 2012)
Projects using it
jws.dev

Experience highlights

  • Use semantic icons to support scannable, accessible interfaces.
  • Serve the icon assets locally on this site instead of relying on a public CDN.

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