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A transformation happened a few years ago, it seems. It's like they got venture capital and became a hodge-podge of weird business ideas without a cohesive vision, rather than a classic icon library. The sales page disappoints, as if designed by a marketer, not a designer.

Rather than lament at length what Font Awesome has become, I thought I'd reflect on its beginnings.

Here's the very first version of their site, March 2012.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120309000714/http://fortawesom...

And the excited discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672526