Jory Raphael
Icon Design Lead at Font Awesome
Vergennes, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolJory Raphael is an icon-focused designer and illustrator with over eight years leading icon design at Font Awesome and a career spanning product, studio, and startup roles. He co-founded Notabli and has led design teams at Cubspot and Parent Co., blending hands-on craft with product leadership. His portfolio includes work for high-profile clients such as Sesame Street and Apple, reflecting both playful illustration chops and rigorous brand sensibilities. Trained in performing arts and theater, he brings a storyteller’s eye to visual systems and user-facing metaphor. Based in Vergennes, Vermont, he pairs small-town perspective with global reach in iconography and design systems. Outside design he’s an occasional actor, a detail that informs his empathetic, character-driven approach to icons.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Performing Arts, Graphic Design, BA, Performing Arts, Graphic Design at Colby CollegeTheater, Theater at National Theater Institute
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Github Skills (15)
css10
woff10
logos10
svg10
fonts10
branding10
font-awesome10
iconic10
svg-font10
google-fonts10
icon-pack7
svg-files7
octicons6
svg-images6
bootstrap-icons6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
sensibleworld/symbolicons
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
The iconic SVG, font, and CSS toolkit
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 4 PRs in 1 day
svg-fontcsssvg-spritesgoogle-fontsbranding
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