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Hey folks. Dave Gandy here. Happy to answer any questions and hear any thoughts. :)

deckar01 11y ago
How will the commissioned icon marketplace be structured? I love the idea, but have had negative experiences with services like fiverr and freelancer.
- fortawesome 11y ago
  You'll be able to contract out the designers directly who made the original icon set. No worries about quality because it's the same person who did the original. They'll match perfectly, and you'll be able to work with them to make sure you get exactly what you want. (Everything will be pixel-perfect, too.) For instance, if you want a Font Awesome icon that's not in the project, you can contract me out directly. You'll be able to do this for all of the paid icon sets: https://fonticons.com/sets/premium https://fonticons.com/sets/premium. Right now, we've got 2 gorgeous icon sets from Zach Roszczewski. You'll be able to contract him directly to get any icons his set might not have yet. (If you all don't know Zach, he's a particularly phenomenal icon designer. He did the Airbnb icons that are so gorgeous. The dude's seriously talented.)
  - karmajunkie 11y ago
    out of curiousity, what does a custom icon cost, ballpark? I'm woefully underinformed when it comes to these kinds of things.
- wiradikusuma 11y ago
  care to share your negative experiences? (maybe in summary if you don't feel like sharing too much)
  - deckar01 11y ago
    Fiverr was overly saturated with more established artists. It was nearly impossible to find my listing organically. Freelancer was filled with low quality / undervalued offers and spammy users. You can spend a lot of time fulfilling an offer just to wait weeks to find out if your work is selected amongst the other submissions. The services seem good if you need some cheap work done, but felt pretty bleak from an artist's perspective.
IgorPartola 11y ago
Just FYI, previewing icons from the premium set on mobile shows a bootstrap dialog that has all manner of layout issues: too large and wide and icons are too small. Not the best way to showcase the great work.
- fortawesome 11y ago
  You're absolutely right. We'll get around to it soon. :) (As a rationale for why we haven't done it yet, about 95% of our visitors are on desktop. But we definitely need a good mobile version for the marketing side of the site.)
Bromlife 11y ago
I subscribed to this from the early days, but in the end I cancelled my account. I just didn't get enough value out of it to justify paying a monthly fee. But I probably didn't truly understand what this service is for. Can you please explain it to me ELI5?
- fortawesome 11y ago
  I'll see what I can do. If I miss it, let me know. :) (And I'm assuming you're familiar with Font Awesome and think it's worth using.) Fonticons is for when you outgrow Font Awesome: - maybe you want to design and use your own icons, like your company logo (our copy and paste out of Illustrator CC is super simple), but rolling your own icon font is daunting - maybe you don't want to serve all 519 icons when your site uses 20 - maybe you want an icon set that looks different from Font Awesome (our icon marketplace, which is about to grow quite quickly, will have a whole range of styles) As your site's icon needs get more specific, hopefully Fonticons make sense. Any better?
- thomasfoster96 11y ago
  I wonder what 'explain it to me ELI5' would be called - a reverse recursive acronym?
gadders 11y ago
No questions, but thanks for Font Awesome. I hope you make fat stacks.

How will the commissioned icon marketplace be structured? I love the idea, but have had negative experiences with services like fiverr and freelancer.

fortawesome 11y ago
You'll be able to contract out the designers directly who made the original icon set. No worries about quality because it's the same person who did the original. They'll match perfectly, and you'll be able to work with them to make sure you get exactly what you want. (Everything will be pixel-perfect, too.) For instance, if you want a Font Awesome icon that's not in the project, you can contract me out directly. You'll be able to do this for all of the paid icon sets: https://fonticons.com/sets/premium https://fonticons.com/sets/premium. Right now, we've got 2 gorgeous icon sets from Zach Roszczewski. You'll be able to contract him directly to get any icons his set might not have yet. (If you all don't know Zach, he's a particularly phenomenal icon designer. He did the Airbnb icons that are so gorgeous. The dude's seriously talented.)
- karmajunkie 11y ago
  out of curiousity, what does a custom icon cost, ballpark? I'm woefully underinformed when it comes to these kinds of things.
wiradikusuma 11y ago
care to share your negative experiences? (maybe in summary if you don't feel like sharing too much)
- deckar01 11y ago
  Fiverr was overly saturated with more established artists. It was nearly impossible to find my listing organically. Freelancer was filled with low quality / undervalued offers and spammy users. You can spend a lot of time fulfilling an offer just to wait weeks to find out if your work is selected amongst the other submissions. The services seem good if you need some cheap work done, but felt pretty bleak from an artist's perspective.

IgorPartola 11y ago

Just FYI, previewing icons from the premium set on mobile shows a bootstrap dialog that has all manner of layout issues: too large and wide and icons are too small. Not the best way to showcase the great work.

fortawesome 11y ago
You're absolutely right. We'll get around to it soon. :) (As a rationale for why we haven't done it yet, about 95% of our visitors are on desktop. But we definitely need a good mobile version for the marketing side of the site.)

Bromlife 11y ago

I subscribed to this from the early days, but in the end I cancelled my account. I just didn't get enough value out of it to justify paying a monthly fee. But I probably didn't truly understand what this service is for. Can you please explain it to me ELI5?

fortawesome 11y ago
I'll see what I can do. If I miss it, let me know. :) (And I'm assuming you're familiar with Font Awesome and think it's worth using.) Fonticons is for when you outgrow Font Awesome: - maybe you want to design and use your own icons, like your company logo (our copy and paste out of Illustrator CC is super simple), but rolling your own icon font is daunting - maybe you don't want to serve all 519 icons when your site uses 20 - maybe you want an icon set that looks different from Font Awesome (our icon marketplace, which is about to grow quite quickly, will have a whole range of styles) As your site's icon needs get more specific, hopefully Fonticons make sense. Any better?
thomasfoster96 11y ago
I wonder what 'explain it to me ELI5' would be called - a reverse recursive acronym?

gadders 11y ago

No questions, but thanks for Font Awesome. I hope you make fat stacks.