The combination of my technology background and my business and marketing acumen was in high demand as the Internet rapidly brought change to the industry.Īfter reading Naked Conversations, I was motivated to better brand and control the content on the site. Over time, I found out that more and more of the group were coming to me for technology advice.

I belonged to a Marketing Book club in Indianapolis that quickly grew out of control. I was all over the place and mostly wrote for myself – without much of an audience. I began blogging on Blogger and waxed poetic about everything from politics to Internet tools. Years later I sold the domain to a company that helped folks quit smoking, one of my first big contracts. My first site was a site called Helping Hand that curated the best sites from around the web to help people with their computers and with navigating resources on the Internet. I started my work on the web more than two decades ago. Here’s a quick video on how I find icons on Font Awesome and then use them within my Illustrator files. That’s all there is to it! How to Use Font Awesome in Illustrator Copy and paste the character from the cheatsheet into your file.Open up an Adobe Creative Cloud program (eg.Open up the Font Awesome Cheatsheet in your browser.There’s no need to memorize each character or do a search for the right one, here’s how to use the font: Install the font, restart Illustrator and you’re up and running! You can even convert them to outlines and use them in the illustration.įont Awesome is widely used to add these logos and other icons on websites, but you may not realize that you could download the actual font to install on your Mac or PC as well! The TrueType font (ttf file) is part of the download. Fonts are vector-based and scalable to your project, so they’re perfect for use in graphical desktop applications like Illustrator or Photoshop.

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