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Font Awesome

The iconic SVG, font, and CSS toolkit observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome · homepage · JavaScript · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

90/100

  • Activity 92
  • Release rhythm 81
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 35.0
  • age_days: 5311
  • days_rel: 49
  • days_push: 49
  • n_releases_24m: 9

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

76876 stars · 12184 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

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

library · maturity stable

ui-components css-framework web-development frontend web-design cross-platform icons icon-library webfont svg-sprites font-awesome vue angular svg-icons web-server nodejs

1 source

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="FortAwesome/Font-Awesome")

Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem