# Font Awesome

The iconic SVG, font, and CSS toolkit

Repository: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/font-awesome
Homepage: https://fontawesome.com
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: fontawesome, icons, webfont, font, css, svg-icons, svg-sprites
Last push: 2026-07-15T18:15:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 81, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5311, "days_push": 49, "days_rel": 49, "gap_med": 35.0, "n_releases_24m": 9}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 76876, forks 12184 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:21.623781+00:00)

## What it is
Font Awesome is the Internet's most popular icon library and toolkit, providing thousands of icons as SVGs, web fonts, and CSS. It ships framework integrations for Vue and Angular and is free for commercial and open-source use.

## Use cases
- add icons to a website
- find an svg icon set for my web app
- use font awesome icons in vue
- use font awesome icons in angular
- replace icon fonts with svg sprites
- style icons with css

## When to choose
- you need a large, well-maintained icon set with consistent styling
- you want framework components for Vue or Angular
- you need both webfont and SVG delivery options

## When to avoid
- you need a fully permissive license for icon artwork (icons are CC BY 4.0)
- you want a minimal tree-shakeable icon set without extra weight
- you need a non-icon design system or full UI component library

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, css-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: icons, icon-library, webfont, svg-sprites, font-awesome, vue, angular, svg-icons, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- FortAwesome/Font-Awesome (main) score 90
- FortAwesome/vue-fontawesome (sdk) score 97
- FortAwesome/angular-fontawesome (sdk) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:21.623781+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:14:20.588224+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:21.623781+00:00, sha 13bdbfefbd9e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.