⚡ Icon Libraries in Japan

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, enabling consistent and scalable visual elements across different screen sizes and resolutions.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, icon libraries are used on 29.8% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Font Awesome, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 92.5% share.
It is followed by Material Icons with 5.6% and Ionicons with 1.4%.

Font Awesome 92.5%
Material Icons 5.6%
Ionicons 1.4%
Material Symbols 1.3%
Fontello 1%
Bootstrap Icons 0.7%
Simple Line Icons 0.6%
Themify Icons 0.3%
Material Design Icons 0.3%
Remix Icon 0.2%
Line Awesome 0.2%
Iconify 0.2%
Twemoji 0.2%
Lucide 0.2%
Boxicons 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Material Icons ^(-2)
4. Material Symbols ^(-7)
5. Fontello ^(-1)
9. Material Design Icons ^(-4)
10. Remix Icon ^(-2)
11. Line Awesome ^(-12)
12. Iconify ^(-3)
19. Linearicons ^(-5)
21. Lineicons ^(-13)
23. Fork Awesome ^(-10)

✨ Best Icon Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 38 icon libraries used on sites from Japan, 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	92.5%
2	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	5.6%
3	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	1.4%
4	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	1.3%
5	Fontello A free icon font generator that allows you to create custom fonts using icons from other sets like Font Awesome. FreeOpen source	1%
6	Bootstrap Icons San Francisco, California, United States A free, high-quality, open-source icon library with over 2,000 icons. FreeOpen source	0.7%
7	Simple Line Icons An open-source icon library with CSS, SASS, LESS and web font files. FreeOpen source	0.6%
8	Themify Icons A set of 320+ icons available under an Open Font license. Free	0.3%
9	Material Design Icons A community-maintained open-source icon set that follows Google's Material Design guidelines for consistent interface graphics. FreeOpen source	0.3%
10	Remix Icon A set of 3000+ open-source neutral-style system symbols for designers and developers. FreeOpen source	0.2%
11	Line Awesome Wilmington, Delaware, United States A free Font Awesome alternative that contains 1300+ icons, released by Icons8 under a Good Boy License. FreeOpen source	0.2%
12	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	0.2%
13	Twemoji Bastrop, Texas, United States An Twitter's open source library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms. FreeOpen source	0.2%
14	Lucide An open-source icon library that provides over 1,600 SVG icons made by the community. FreeOpen source	0.2%
15	Boxicons A carefully designed open source iconset with 1500+ icons. FreeOpen source$99+	0.1%
16	Dripicons A completely free set of 200 vector icons. FreeOpen source	0.1%
17	IcoFont Dhaka, Bangladesh A collection of 2400+ open source icons. FreeOpen source	0.09%
18	Weather Icons Contain a set of 215 weather-themed icons and CSS. FreeOpen source	0.09%
19	Linearicons An icon pack with more than 1,000 vector line icons. Free$59	0.06%
20	Typicons 336 free-to-use vector icons embedded in a web font.	0.06%
21	Lineicons A huge commercial icon pack having 500+ free icons. Free$79+	0.04%
22	Tabler Icons Bielsko-Biala, Poland An open-source set of 4,950+ free SVG icons with no attribution required. FreeOpen source$9	0.04%
23	Fork Awesome A suite of 796 pictographic and brand icons that began as a fork of Font Awesome. FreeOpen source	0.04%
24	Feather A collection of 280+ open-source icons. FreeOpen source	0.04%
25	Flat UI New York, United States A free design framework and theme for Bootstrap. 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 159,798 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 39 icon libraries across the web.
Of these, 38 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on April 9, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.