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About
Icon sommelier 🍷 Senior Icon Designer at Font Awesome. Before that, I made all manner of digital and physical things for MetaLab.
Work Experience
Making icons & illustrations — sometimes writing about them too
Pioneered the Specialist team, focusing primarily on iconography and illustration systems for digital products.
Designed digital app experiences for every kind of technological rectangle there is.
Projects
When you need subtle design touches for your project, the right icons can make a big difference. That’s why we’re so excited to announce Font Awesome Sharp!
Similar to the Thin style, we envisioned Font Awesome Sharp with a clean, modern look that pairs nicely alongside sharp typefaces like Helvetica, Roboto, Aperçu, and Franklin Gothic, among others.
In this podcast, we talk about icons, naturally. We talk about how we think building healthy and sustainable workplaces is possible. We also dive deep into the tech of how we build things. And, of course, we nerd out along the way.
Side Projects
Broke the ol’ HTML and CSS out of retirement to build a new garden for myself. Always tinkering.
100+ consistent & commonly-needed UI glyphs, all tailored to look nice and sharp at 16px
Made a fun icon pack ahead of the big announcement of FigJam 🤗 Try them out in your next brainstorming session!
Are your icons a weird mish-mash of styles? Did a client give you a brand set you have to match for a mobile app? How even??? Wonder no more, as we go through some basics around UI icons, and how to make them consistent.
The very first event for the Friends of Figma: Iconography chapter, chatting through the similarities and differences for iconographers coming from the world of Adobe.
Writing
Rubber chickens and squirting flowers are great accessories for lots of occasions — just not a black tie event. And so it is with design. It’s true that Font Awesome is known for the whimsical and zany, but sometimes you need an icon family that captures a more formal tone. That’s why we built Font Awesome Sharp!
Features
“In this inaugural episode of Nerd Show and Tell, host Matt Johnson interviews Font Awesome icon designer Noah Jacobus. They discuss Noah’s background in music education, how he became an icon design hobbyist, the monumental task of creating the Font Awesome Sharp family, and little bit about his love of handheld retro-styled games.”
Helena Zhang counts down her top 5 favorite new icon releases from 2022.
In this Nerd Show and Tell, Noah tells us about the monumental task of creating the upcoming Font Awesome Sharp icon family and shares his love of minimal, retro-styled games.