# alexdrone/ios-fontawesome

NSString+FontAwesome

Repository: https://github.com/alexdrone/ios-fontawesome
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ios-fontawesome
Language: Objective-C
License Family: other
Last push: 2017-01-24T01:01:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4994, "days_push": 3509, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1741, forks 254 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:30.302446+00:00)

## What it is
An Objective-C library providing NSString and UIImage categories for using Font Awesome icons in iOS apps. It lets developers render Font Awesome glyphs as label text or generate icon images, plus an FAImageView placeholder component.

## Use cases
- add font awesome icons to iOS labels
- render icon glyphs from font awesome in uikit
- generate icon uiimages with custom colors on iOS
- use font awesome icons as image view placeholders
- display github or other brand icons in an iOS app

## When to choose
- you maintain an older Objective-C iOS codebase and want lightweight Font Awesome icons without dependencies
- you need simple icon text or generated icon images in UIKit

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new Swift project - use actively maintained alternatives like FontAwesome.swift
- you need recent Font Awesome icon versions or ongoing updates
- you use SwiftUI rather than UIKit

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, graphics
- domain: mobile-development, frontend
- platform: -
- tags: font-awesome, objective-c, icons, uikit, category, ios, swift, mobile

## Member repositories
- alexdrone/ios-fontawesome (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.302446+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 2026-08-30T03:30:01.937450+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alexdrone/ios-fontawesome (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.302446+00:00, sha 724b452c6eb5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.