# The Font Awesome Community
Font Awesome, the iconic font and CSS framework
Author: Dave Gandy

Font Awesome 5 released! New icons, SVG, ligatures, & tons more.
Font Awesome 5

# Community

Lots of ways to get involved with Font Awesome

- Follow @fontawesome
- Tweet

Font Awesome has a vibrant community of folks helping each other out. You can get support, report bugs, request new icons, submit pull requests, and check upcoming milestones.

## Getting Support

Having trouble getting Font Awesome up and running? Something not working the way you think it should? I hate that I don't have time to answer Font Awesome support emails anymore. So here are some things you might wanna do:

1. Make sure you've read the latest version of how to get started. It's been updated recently to make Font Awesome even easier to use.
2. Check out the existing questions tagged as Font Awesome over on Stack Overflow. Other folks might have had the same question you've had.
3. Can't find the answer to your question on Stack Overflow? Ask a new question, then send me an email and I might be able to take a look.

## Requesting New Icons

New icons mostly start as requests by the Font Awesome community on GitHub. Want to request a new icon? Here are some things to keep in mind:

1. Please be nice. Font Awesome is a happy place.
2. Please search to see if your icon request already exists. If a request is found, please add a 👍 reaction to that one.
3. Please make requests for single icons, unless you are requesting a couple of strictly related icons (e.g., thumbs-up/thumbs-down).
4. Please and thank you if you include the following:
   - Title your new issue `Icon request: icon-name` (e.g., `Icon request: icon-car`).
   - Include a few use cases for your requested icon. How do you plan on using it?
   - Attach a single color image or two that represent the idea you're going for.
5. Request concrete objects: it's harder to make an icon to represent happiness, it's easier to make a smiley face.

## Reporting Bugs

Found a problem with Font Awesome? Feel free to submit an issue on the GitHub project. But please keep the following in mind:

1. Please be nice. Font Awesome is a happy place.
2. Please search to see if your bug was already reported.
3. Before opening any issue, please read the generic issue guidelines, by Nicolas Gallagher.
4. After doing everything above, feel free to submit an issue.

## Submitting Pull Requests

Found a way to solve a bug in Font Awesome? Want to contribute new features? Here are a few things to remember:

1. Please do not submit new icons.
2. Please submit all pull requests against *-wip branches.
3. All pull requests submitted against master will be summarily closed and this guide referenced.
4. After doing everything above, feel free to submit a pull request.

## Project Milestones

Want to keep up with what's planned for Font Awesome? Check out our milestones on the GitHub project.

## Thanks To

Thanks to @robmadole and @supercodepoet for icon design review, advice, some Jekyll help, and being all around badass coders.

HUGE thanks to @gtagliala for doing such a fantastic job managing pull requests and issues on the Font Awesome GitHub project.

Thanks to MaxCDN for providing the excellent BootstrapCDN, the fastest and easiest way to get started with Font Awesome.

## Tell Me Thanks

Hopefully you think Font Awesome is awesome. I've put hundreds of hours into the project to give back to the open source community. If you'd like, here are a couple of ways you can tell me thanks for all my hard work.

### Tip me on Gittip

Gittip is a great way to let developers know you appreciate their work.

### My Amazon Wish List

Or pick something straight from my wish list. Gift cards are great.

### Font Awesome 5 Released!

#### More Icons

Get 893 icons right now with FA Free, plus another 1,283 icons with Pro, which also gets you another 46 icon category packs as we finish them!

#### All-New SVG

Our all-new SVG with JavaScript gives you all the power of SVG without the usual hassle.

#### Tons More

Ligatures for easier desktop use, shim for quick upgrades from 4, and more styles, icons, and tools with FA Pro.

### Font Awesome 5