I love Font Awesome and use it all the time....but this campaign is to help fund development of a "somewhat faster" commercial licensable version of existing icons?
I would be a lot more apt to donate if this was just to help fund Dave to make more icons freely available.
FWIW this was not what I got from a quick glance through the KS page. I left with an impression that you are just adding extra weights to the FA.
Also, making a completely new icon font ... damn, that's going to be a tough thing to market. Every second person on Dribbble considers it their blood debt to release at least one icon font, usually a freebie. There's ton of established icon fonts too, some of which are extremely well marketed and are essentially the go-to standards in the designer (paid) circles. Granted, you've got a great name at your disposal and an attention of a large user base, but given that FA is free, I just can't help but wonder what your conversion rate is going to be like.
Appreciate all your've done with Font Awesome...just not sure about black tie (while I get that it loads fast cutting points such as the star example IMHO makes the icons look odd like an images missing anti-aliasing).
I would be a lot more apt to donate if this was just to help fund Dave to make more icons freely available.