🆚 Font Awesome vs. Fontello

Font Awesome is a toolkit of web fonts and icon sets that lets developers embed scalable icons via CSS, JavaScript, or SVG.

It includes over 2,000 free icons across classic and brand packs, and provides access to more than 50,000 icons in the Pro version.

Fontello is a free web-based icon font generator that lets users build custom icon packs by selecting glyphs from multiple open-source icon libraries, including Font Awesome, Entypo, and Typicons.

The service generates icon web fonts with CSS and demo files, supports SVG-to-font conversion, Unicode character mapping, and customizable font naming, and helps reduce website asset size by exporting only the selected icons.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Icons category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Icons category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Icons category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Icons category.
• 🥇 Most popular in France in the Icons category.

• 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Tools category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Turkey in the Tools category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Greece in the Tools category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Austria in the Icons category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Portugal in the Tools category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Font Awesome technology profile
• Fonticons, Inc. company profile

• Fontello technology profile