Podcast Awesome

About Podcast Awesome

On Podcast Awesome we talk to members of the Font Awesome team about icons, design, tech, business, and of course, nerdery. 🎙️ Podcast Awesome is your all-access pass into the creative engine behind Font Awesome (https://fontawesome.com) — the web’s favorite icon toolkit. Join host Matt Johnson and the Font Awesome crew (and friends) for deep dives into icon design, front-end engineering, software development, healthy business culture, and a whole lot of lovingly-rendered nerdery. From technical explorations of our open-source tooling, chats with web builders, icon designers, and content creators, with the occasional gleeful rants about early internet meme culture, we bring you stories and strategies from the trenches of building modern web software — with a healthy dose of 80s references and tech dad jokes. 🎧 Perfect for: Icon design and content-first thinking Creative process and collaborative design Work-life balance in tech Remote team culture and async collaboration Internet history, meme archaeology, and other nerd ephemera 🧠 Come for the design wisdom, stay for the deep meme cuts and beautifully crafted icons.

Publisher

Font Awesome

Category

arts · business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Dec 2022

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

33 of 92 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Cape Cuddles, Icon Farts, and Hoobastank: The Story of the Snuggle

   Host Matt shares the hilarious origin story of Font Awesome's "Snuggle" company meetup, featuring insights from Dave Gandy, Travis Chase, Rob Madole, Jory Raphael, Cory LaViska, Ed Emanuel, and Frances Botsford.

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   The CDN Experiment That Converted One Person (and What It Taught Us About Failing Well)

   Font Awesome founders Dave Gandy and Travis Chase discuss their CDN experiment and the valuable lessons learned from embracing failure in building a successful company.

3. 

   10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Sandwich That Broke UX Rules and Won

   Host [Host Name] explores the surprising evolution of the hamburger icon from its 1981 origins to its modern-day variations, offering insights into design innovation.

Who has been a guest on Podcast Awesome

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mike
• Ed
• Josh Williams
• Laura Bohill
• Dave Gandy

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

86

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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