🆚 Font Awesome vs. Heroicons
- 📈 Font Awesome is much more popular than Heroicons.
- 🌍 Font Awesome is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this 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
Pricing
Free version ✔️
Pro Lite$49/year
Pro$99/year
Pro Max$499/year
Free ✔️Open source
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Font Awesome icon library is 1,239 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
- 🥇 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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Cambodia in the Icons category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Hong Kong in the Icons category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Germany in the Icons category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in France in the Icons category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in the Netherlands in the Icons category.
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
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.