Font Awesome is the most popular icon library on the internet — used on 200M+ websites. 30,000+ icons in solid, regular, light, and duotone styles. AI-powered search finds the right icon from a description. Free version has everything most projects need.
How Font Awesome compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Font Awesome does. Only Flaticon lists a starting price, $10 a month. 2 of the 5 offer an API, as Font Awesome does. Font Awesome offers a web app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app. Font Awesome was founded in 2012; the alternatives were founded between 1998 and 2021, 1 of them earlier.
Market position · Design
How Font Awesome compares in Design
Font Awesome has low opportunity and sits in the bottom third of 351 live Design tools on FalcoScan. Across Design, the average opportunity score is 52.3 and the average saturation score 41.5. FalcoScan rates Font Awesome's own market position as contested. 54 of the 351 operating Design tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 23 shutdowns in the category.
Font Awesome compared with its closest alternatives
The closest alternatives to Font Awesome that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Flaticon, Heroicons, Iconify, Phosphor Icons, and Google Fonts.
Is Font Awesome still running?
Yes. As of 1 November 2026, FalcoScan lists Font Awesome as operating at fontawesome.com.
Does Font Awesome have an API?
Yes. Font Awesome offers an API.
Who is Font Awesome for?
Font Awesome is built for developers and designers.
How do I sign in to Font Awesome?
Sign in on Font Awesome's own website, fontawesome.com. FalcoScan reviews Font Awesome but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Font Awesome directly.