🆚 Font Awesome vs. Heroicons

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Icon library
Icon library

About

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.

Heroicons is an open-source SVG icon library maintained by the Tailwind CSS team that provides clean, minimal icons for user interfaces.

It includes over 300 icons and has official React and Vue integrations.

Headquarters

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️
Pro Lite$49/year
Pro$99/year
Pro Max$499/year
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Icons › Rank #1
Icons › Rank #25

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Font Awesome icon library is 1,257 times more popular than Heroicons.
Total websites

Market share

Icons

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Font Awesome is more popular than Heroicons in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Italy
Spain
India
Netherlands
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Font Awesome is more popular than Heroicons in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Rank
#15,482
#19,979
#21,900
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See also

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