🆚 Material Icons vs. Typicons
- 📈 Material Icons is much more popular than Typicons.
- 🌍 Material Icons is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Material Icons
TypiconsType
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.
Typicons are 336 free-to-use vector icons embedded in a web font.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Melbourne, Australia
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Material Icons library is 16 times more popular than Typicons.
Total websites
Market share
Icons
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Material Icons is more popular than Typicons in all countries.
United States
Japan
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Brazil
India
Canada
Awards
- 🥈 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.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Russia in the Icons category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Italy in the Icons category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in the United States in the Icons category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in France in the Icons category.
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 Typicons is more commonly used on major global religions sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Font Awesome
Ionicons
Simple Line Icons
Material Symbols
Material Design Icons
Bootstrap Icons
Fontello🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.