🆚 Fontello vs. Material Icons

Fontello is a free web-based icon font generator that lets users build custom icon packs by selecting glyphs from multiple open-source icon libraries, including Font Awesome, Entypo, and Typicons.

The service generates icon web fonts with CSS and demo files, supports SVG-to-font conversion, Unicode character mapping, and customizable font naming, and helps reduce website asset size by exporting only the selected icons.

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.

• 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Tools category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Turkey in the Tools category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Greece in the Tools category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Austria in the Icons category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Portugal in the Tools 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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