FortAwesome

    FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

    The iconic SVG, font, and CSS toolkit

    77.0K stars
    12.2K forks
    1.3K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 114 days ago, with 5 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #16 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 8, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a comprehensive toolkit of SVG, font, and CSS icons for web and application design.
    • Offers a versatile and easy-to-integrate icon library with consistent updates and backward compatibility.
    • Use for enhancing UI design with scalable vector icons in web development projects.
    • Use for creating accessible and visually appealing buttons and navigation elements in mobile apps.
    • Use for quickly prototyping interfaces with a wide variety of customizable icons in design tools.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    Other

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    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Font Awesome is the Internet's icon library and toolkit, used by millions of designers, developers, and content creators.

    Now that Font Awesome 7 has been released we are marking version 6 as Long Term Support (LTS). Version 6 will get critical bug fixes only. Version 3, 4, and 5 are now end-of-life and we don't plan on releasing any further versions of these.

    You can see a complete list of versions on our Versions page.

    Excerpt from the FortAwesome/Font-Awesome README on GitHub (NOASSERTION license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 10: -1Aug 31: +0

    +201 stars over 90 days across 10 snapshot days.

    Forks

    12.2K-29

    Open issues

    320+4

    Compared with peers in Frontend

    Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth

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