🆚 Font Awesome vs. Material Icons

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.

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.

• 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Icons category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Icons category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Icons category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Icons category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Icons category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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

• Material Icons technology profile
• Google company profile