🆚 Font Awesome vs. Material Icons

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Font Awesome is much more popular than Material Icons.
🌍 Font Awesome is more popular in all countries.

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.

Material Icons is an official icon library created by Google that provides standardized interface icons designed according to the Material Design guidelines.

The set includes thousands of icons across categories such as navigation, communication, media, and editing, and is available in SVG, PNG, and icon font formats, with variants such as filled, outlined, rounded, sharp, and two-tone styles.

Headquarters

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

fontawesome.com #1,074

developers.google.com

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Pro Lite$49/year

Pro$99/year

Pro Max$499/year

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Icons › Rank #1

Icons › Rank #4

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Font Awesome icon library is 38 times more popular than Material Icons.

Total websites

Market share

Icons

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Font Awesome is more popular than Material Icons in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

France

Italy

Spain

India

Netherlands

Brazil

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.

🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the Icons category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Font Awesome is more popular than Material Icons 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.

Name

Rank

#88

#92

en.wikipedia.org

#188

#198

Name

Rank

developers.google.com

#669

#1,096

#1,111

#1,154

Compare alternatives

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See also

Font Awesome technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on April 2, 2026.
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