Font Awesome is a go-to font toolkit used by thousands of websites worldwide. It offers hundreds of high-quality scalable vector icons for various usages. To fund the new Font Awesome 5 release, Rob and the rest of the Font Awesome team decided to go for a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. It was a good decision - with over one million dollars pledged, the campaign has taken the crown for the most successful software campaign ever run on the platform.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://stage.typo3.org/article/typo3-logo-is-in-font-awesome-501/