🆚 Font Awesome vs. Material Design Icons
- 📈 Font Awesome is much more popular than Material Design Icons.
- 🌍 Font Awesome is more popular in all countries.
Font Awesome
Material Design IconsType
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.
Material Design Icons is a community-maintained open-source icon set that follows Google's 
Material Design guidelines for consistent interface graphics.
It includes over 7,000 icons in multiple styles and formats such as SVG, PNG, and web fonts, supports NPM distribution, provides packages for frameworks like 
React, 
Vue, and 
Angular, and offers a searchable catalog with categorized icons.
Headquarters
Pricing
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Ireland in the Icons category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Russia in the Icons category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Icons category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Iran in the Icons category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Argentina in the Icons category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Iconify🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.