⚡ Icons in South Africa

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.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our research, icon libraries are used on 39.9% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Font Awesome, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 95.7% share.
It is followed by Simple Line Icons with 4.8% and Ionicons with 2.8%.

Font Awesome 95.7%
Simple Line Icons 4.8%
Ionicons 2.8%
Fontello 1.9%
Dripicons 1.8%
Themify Icons 1.5%
Bootstrap Icons 1.5%
Twemoji 0.8%
Material Icons 0.6%
IcoFont 0.5%
Remix Icon 0.5%
Lucide 0.4%
Boxicons 0.4%
Iconify 0.3%
Material Symbols 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Simple Line Icons ^(-1)
4. Fontello ^(-1)
5. Dripicons ^(-4)
10. IcoFont ^(-5)
16. Weather Icons ^(-1)
19. Lordicon ^(-7)
20. Linearicons ^(-4)
21. FlagCDN ^(-1)
24. Fort Awesome ^(-4)
25. Unicons ^(-7)

✨ Best Icon Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 33 icon libraries used on sites from South Africa, 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	95.7%
2	Simple Line Icons An open-source icon library with CSS, SASS, LESS and web font files. FreeOpen source	4.8%
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	2.8%
4	Fontello A free icon font generator that allows you to create custom fonts using icons from other sets like Font Awesome. FreeOpen source	1.9%
5	Dripicons A completely free set of 200 vector icons. FreeOpen source	1.8%
6	Themify Icons A set of 320+ icons available under an Open Font license. Free	1.5%
7	Bootstrap Icons San Francisco, California, United States A free, high-quality, open-source icon library with over 2,000 icons. FreeOpen source	1.5%
8	Twemoji Bastrop, Texas, United States An Twitter's open source library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms. FreeOpen source	0.8%
9	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%
10	IcoFont Dhaka, Bangladesh A collection of 2400+ open source icons. FreeOpen source	0.5%
11	Remix Icon A set of 3000+ open-source neutral-style system symbols for designers and developers. FreeOpen source	0.5%
12	Lucide An open-source icon library that provides over 1,600 SVG icons made by the community. FreeOpen source	0.4%
13	Boxicons A carefully designed open source iconset with 1500+ icons. FreeOpen source$99+	0.4%
14	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	0.3%
15	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	0.3%
16	Weather Icons Contain a set of 215 weather-themed icons and CSS. FreeOpen source	0.3%
-	Material Design Icons A community-maintained open-source icon set that follows Google's Material Design guidelines for consistent interface graphics. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	Typicons 336 free-to-use vector icons embedded in a web font.	0.1%
19	Lordicon Wrocław, Poland An animated icon library with the 36,000+ premium and free animated icons. Free$13+/month	0.1%
20	Linearicons An icon pack with more than 1,000 vector line icons. Free$59	0.1%
21	FlagCDN Prague, Czech Republic A free CDN service for images of flags of all countries and US states. Free	0.1%
22	Feather A collection of 280+ open-source icons. FreeOpen source	0.08%
23	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	0.03%
24	Fort Awesome A commercial icon font service that allowed users to create custom icon fonts by selecting specific icons for their projects. Free$49+/yearLegacy	0.03%
25	Unicons 1000+ vector icons and icon font released by IconScout.	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Icons in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.