🆚 Material Icons vs. Twemoji

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Icon library
Icon library

About

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.

Twemoji is an Twitter's open source library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Bastrop, Texas, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Icons › Rank #7
Icons › Rank #8
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #86

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Material Icons library is as popular as Twemoji.
Total websites

Market share

Icons

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Material Icons is more popular in Japan, France, and Germany, while Twemoji is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Spain
Italy
Brazil
Canada
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Material Icons is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Twemoji is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and general news sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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#1,111
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