Vic Bell on Designing Graphite: Hand-Drawn Icons for Font Awesome

About this episode

Vic Bell discusses the design process behind the new hand-drawn icon pack, Graphite, for Font Awesome.

In this episode, Matt and Jory sit down with UK-based icon designer + illustrator Vic Bell to talk about the brand-new Font Awesome icon pack, Graphite — a loose, hand-drawn set that brings texture, depth, and a whole lot of human personality to iconography. If you’ve ever tried to balance clarity vs. creativity, or wondered how icons can feel more like typefaces with different “voices”, this one’s for you. 🎧 🗒️ What We Cover in This Episode 👋 How Vic and Jory connected ✏️ Designing Font Awes...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt, Jory

Guest: Vic Bell

Topics covered

• icon design
• hand-drawn icons
• Font Awesome
• creativity vs clarity
• iconography
• illustration

Keywords

• icon design
• hand-drawn
• Font Awesome
• Graphite
• illustration
• creativity
• clarity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Font Awesome

Products: Graphite

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