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You'll still get plenty out of it by ear, but your eyeballs are going to thank you.

Welcome to Podcast Awesome, where we chat about icons, design, tech, business, and nerdery with members of the Font Awesome team.

I'm your host, Matt Johnson.

Today, I'm joined by Font Awesome designers Noah Jacobus and Jory Raphael to talk about Pixel, our pixelated, classic video game-inspired ProPlus icon pack.

Awesome.

Originally, like one of the reasons fun awesome took off originally was that in the early, like it was right around the time when, um, the, the high, the HDR screens were introduced.

So the high def screens were introduced and font awesome because it was a, a, a font was able to scale kind of, very cleanly whereas a lot of icons on the web at that point were actual raster graphics that were designed for a very specific size um and so if someone wanted to have to work on a high density display they would have to scale it up you know 2x and then clean up all the weird anti-aliasing that would happen but because font awesome was an icon font uh just like most type it could just scale cleanly and there was no resolution issues there um This pack is kind of going the opposite direction where like it is all about that pixel perfection.

But like, you know, it's not really pixels like this.