⚡ Icons in China

Icon libraries are collections of pre-designed symbols that enhance user interfaces and can be embedded into web pages using CSS, SVG, or font formats.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, icon libraries are used on 11.4% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top icon libraries in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Font Awesome, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 79.9% share.
It is followed by Ionicons with 12.8% and Bootstrap Icons with 3.9%.

Font Awesome 79.9%
Ionicons 12.8%
Bootstrap Icons 3.9%
Remix Icon 2.3%
Simple Line Icons 1.7%
Fontello 1.3%
Lucide 1.2%
IcoFont 1.1%
Themify Icons 0.8%
Material Icons 0.6%
Material Design Icons 0.4%
Boxicons 0.4%
Iconify 0.4%
Twemoji 0.2%
Dripicons 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top libraries that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. Bootstrap Icons ^(-2)
4. Remix Icon ^(-8)
7. Lucide ^(-3)
8. IcoFont ^(-8)
12. Boxicons ^(-2)
13. Iconify ^(-2)
17. Tabler Icons ^(-2)
18. Feather ^(-2)
19. Heroicons ^(-6)
20. Github Buttons ^(-10)

✨ Best Icon Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 36 icon libraries used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Font Awesome Bentonville, Arkansas, United States A toolkit of web fonts and icon sets that lets developers embed scalable icons via CSS, JavaScript, or SVG. Free$49+/year	79.9%
2	Ionicons Madison, Wisconsin, United States An open-source icon set with 1,300 icons built for Ionic Framework, so icons have both Material Design and iOS versions. FreeOpen source	12.8%
3	Bootstrap Icons San Francisco, California, United States A free, high-quality, open-source icon library with over 2,000 icons. FreeOpen source	3.9%
4	Remix Icon A set of 3000+ open-source neutral-style system symbols for designers and developers. FreeOpen source	2.3%
5	Simple Line Icons An open-source icon library with CSS, SASS, LESS and web font files. FreeOpen source	1.7%
6	Fontello A free icon font generator that allows you to create custom fonts using icons from other sets like Font Awesome. FreeOpen source	1.3%
7	Lucide An open-source icon library that provides over 1,600 SVG icons made by the community. FreeOpen source	1.2%
8	IcoFont Dhaka, Bangladesh A collection of 2400+ open source icons. FreeOpen source	1.1%
9	Themify Icons A set of 320+ icons available under an Open Font license. Free	0.8%
10	Material Icons Mountain View, California, United States An official icon library created by Google that provides standardized interface icons designed according to the Material Design guidelines. FreeOpen source	0.6%
-	Material Design Icons A community-maintained open-source icon set that follows Google's Material Design guidelines for consistent interface graphics. FreeOpen source	0.4%
12	Boxicons A carefully designed open source iconset with 1500+ icons. FreeOpen source$99+	0.4%
13	Iconify Tallinn, Estonia An open-source icon framework that aggregates over 200 icon sets and more than 275,000 vector icons under one standardised API, allowing developers to use icons as web components or via framework-specific wrappers. FreeOpen source	0.4%
14	Twemoji Bastrop, Texas, United States An Twitter's open source library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms. FreeOpen source	0.2%
15	Dripicons A completely free set of 200 vector icons. FreeOpen source	0.1%
16	Material Symbols Mountain View, California, United States The icon set that contains over 3,000 glyphs designed by Google under the Material 3 design guidelines. FreeOpen source	0.1%
17	Tabler Icons Bielsko-Biala, Poland An open-source set of 4,950+ free SVG icons with no attribution required. FreeOpen source$9	0.1%
18	Feather A collection of 280+ open-source icons. FreeOpen source	0.09%
19	Heroicons Kitchener, Ontario, Canada An open-source SVG icon library maintained by the Tailwind CSS team that provides clean, minimal icons for user interfaces. FreeOpen source	0.07%
20	Github Buttons San Francisco, California, United States A JavaScript library for creating buttons with GitHub icons. FreeOpen source	0.06%
21	FlagCDN Prague, Czech Republic A free CDN service for images of flags of all countries and US states. Free	0.05%
22	Fork Awesome A suite of 796 pictographic and brand icons that began as a fork of Font Awesome. FreeOpen source	0.04%
23	Lordicon Wrocław, Poland An animated icon library with the 36,000+ premium and free animated icons. Free$13+/month	0.03%
24	Linearicons An icon pack with more than 1,000 vector line icons. Free$59	0.03%
25	CSS.gg An icon collection containing over 700 UI icons implemented in pure CSS. FreeOpen source	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Icons in other countries

🗃️ 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 83,295 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 39 icon libraries across the web.
Of these, 36 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on April 8, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.