🆚 Fontello vs. Material Symbols

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 Symbols is the icon set that contains over 3,000 glyphs designed by Google under the Material 3 design guidelines.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Icons category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Tools category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Icons category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Tools category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Tools category.

• 🥈 Second most popular in Uruguay in the Icons category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Icons category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Icons category.
• ⭐ 8th most popular in Taiwan in the Icons category.
• ⭐ 9th most popular in Sweden in the Icons category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Fontello technology profile

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