🆚 Font Awesome vs. Simple Line Icons
- 📈 Font Awesome is much more popular than Simple Line Icons.
- 🌎 Font Awesome is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Simple Line Icons is more popular in Eritrea.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ 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.
Simple Line Icons is an open-source icon library with CSS, SASS, LESS and web font files.
Headquarters
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
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 31 times more popular than Simple Line Icons.
Total websites
Market share
Icons
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Font Awesome is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Simple Line Icons is more popular in Eritrea.
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 Germany in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Icons category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Font Awesome is more popular than Simple Line Icons 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.
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Bootstrap Icons🗃️ 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 3,512,920 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.