# thii/FontAwesome.swift

Use FontAwesome in your Swift projects

Repository: https://github.com/thii/FontAwesome.swift
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fontawesomeswift
Language: Swift
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: swift, ios, font-awesome-5, macos, tvos, font-awesome, cocoapods, carthage
Last push: 2023-01-25T03:22:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4342, "days_push": 1316, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1561, forks 261 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:03.866704+00:00)

## What it is
A Swift library that lets developers use Font Awesome 5 icons in iOS, macOS, and tvOS applications. It distributes the Font Awesome font files with type-safe Swift APIs for rendering icons in UI elements.

## Use cases
- add font awesome icons to ios app
- use icon fonts in swift ui or uikit
- display scalable vector icons in macos app
- replace image assets with font icons in swift project
- install font awesome via cocoapods or carthage

## When to choose
- you are building an iOS, macOS, or tvOS app in Swift and want Font Awesome icons
- you prefer type-safe Swift enums over manually embedding icon fonts
- you want dependency-manager support via CocoaPods or Carthage

## When to avoid
- you need Font Awesome 6 or newer icon sets
- you are not developing in Swift or on Apple platforms
- you need an actively developed library with frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: mobile-development, frontend, cross-platform
- platform: -
- tags: font-awesome, icons, swift, cocoapods, carthage, tvos, ios, macos, mobile

## Member repositories
- thii/FontAwesome.swift (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.866704+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 2026-08-30T04:29:44.803306+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thii/FontAwesome.swift (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.866704+00:00, sha 18f2af117a36)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.