Font Awesome

Font Awesome is an icon library and toolkit for adding icons to websites, apps, and design projects. It suits developers who want a large catalog with framework integrations and flexible web styling. Its free tier is useful for modest needs, but paid-plan limits and licensing terms matter if you need broader access or redistribution.

Overview

The Font Awesome 7 catalog lists 2,163 Free icons and 65,928 Pro icons; the homepage describes more than 60,000 icons across over 30 styles. The overall catalog is not the same as the free allowance: larger collections, Pro+ packs, custom-icon capacity, and usage quotas depend on the plan.

For web projects, Kits provide an embed-code route, while packages, web fonts, SVGs, and SVG sprites offer other integration formats. You can also self-host Web Fonts or SVGs. The current release is Font Awesome 7.3.1, dated July 7, 2026. See our Icon Libraries list for more options.

Key features

• Web styling: Sizing, rotation, animation, duotone, stacking, counters, and transforms give developers ways to adapt icons to an interface without treating each asset as fixed artwork.
• Custom icons: Pro Kits let users upload custom icons and use them alongside Font Awesome icons. That is useful when a project needs a consistent mix of house artwork and library assets; the number allowed varies by paid plan.
• Framework and design integrations: Documentation covers Vue, React, Ember, Angular, SCSS, WordPress, and Squarespace. Desktop guidance covers Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, and other design programs, with a Figma plugin also available.
• Developer access and security: JavaScript and GraphQL APIs cover SVG+JS rendering and icon or release information. Tokens can be scoped, revoked, and replaced, and security guidance addresses SVG+JS use with strict Content Security Policies.
• Self-hosting and data: Self-hosting via Web Fonts or SVGs suits teams that do not want the CDN route. Font Awesome says account, website-use, and CDN-use data are stored on US servers, with CDN servers worldwide; stored data volumes are encrypted and access is controlled through auditable multi-factor authentication.

Pricing

Font Awesome is freemium. Free costs nothing and includes 2,163 icons, 1 Kit, and 10,000 pageviews. That is a practical starting point for a small site, but the icon selection and pageview allowance are finite.

Starter costs $4 a month (billed $48 per year, billed annually). It includes Core Pro icon packs, 20 custom icons, 5 Kits, and 50,000 pageviews, but is CDN-only and does not include downloads or a perpetual license. It fits projects that need more than Free without requiring local assets.

Solo costs $8 a month (billed $96 per year, billed annually) and adds all icon packs, Pro+ packs, 200 custom icons, 10 Kits, and 1,000,000 pageviews. Team costs $16 a month (billed $192 per year, billed annually) and raises those allowances to 400 custom icons, 20 Kits, and 2,000,000 pageviews. Both monthly plans are CDN-only and lack downloads and a perpetual license; choose them for their larger hosted quotas, not for downloadable assets.

Pro+ icons are available in Kit packages, not other packages. Pro assets also cannot be distributed publicly in an open-source repository to people who are not covered by the license, an important constraint for public projects. Contact Font Awesome privately to report security issues.

Platforms

Font Awesome supports API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted use, web, and Windows. The breadth of formats and design-program guidance makes it relevant beyond website implementation, while the paid CDN-only terms narrow the options for anyone who needs downloadable assets.

Who it's for

Choose Font Awesome if you need a sizable icon catalog, web-focused styling controls, and integrations spanning common frameworks and design tools. Free is suitable for projects within its 2,163-icon and 10,000-pageview limits. Teams that need Pro+ packs or higher quotas can move up; those requiring downloads, perpetual licensing, or public redistribution of Pro assets should check the terms carefully before committing.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Multiple formats, Kits, packages, and self-hosting support different ways to deploy icons.
• Pro: Styling options and uploaded custom icons help align library assets with a project's visual system.
• Con: Free is capped at 2,163 icons and 10,000 pageviews, so it may not cover a growing or high-traffic site.
• Con: Starter and monthly Solo or Team plans are CDN-only, without downloads or a perpetual license.
• Con: Pro assets cannot be made publicly available in an open-source repository to people outside the license.

Alternatives

The Noun Project is worth considering for PNG and SVG downloads; its free account requires attribution and excludes commercial licenses, and an Icon API trial is available.

Eva Icons is a simpler free option if its 480+ MIT-licensed icons meet your needs. Hugeicons offers a free set of 6,000+ Stroke Rounded icons with a web app, developer formats, and design and developer plugins, while its Pro tier costs $99 a year for 60,000+ Pro icons.

Material Design Icons is a free, Apache 2.0 library, though brand and logo icons are excluded and being removed. Material Symbols may suit projects seeking over 2,500 glyphs under Apache License 2.0 in SVG, PNG, or font formats.

Tabler Icons provides a free MIT-licensed source-code set of 6,200+ SVG icons with updates and community support. Bootstrap Icons is a free web option with over 2,000 icons in SVG, sprite, or web-font formats, usable with or without Bootstrap. Flaticon may suit users who want collections: its free plan allows 3 collections of 50 icons each, while Premium costs $99 a year and permits 2,000 icons per day and 256 icons per collection.

Verdict

Font Awesome is a strong choice for developers and teams who want a broad icon library, extensive web styling, and several integration paths, with a free tier to start. Look elsewhere if your workflow depends on downloads or public redistribution of Pro assets, or if the free icon and pageview caps are too restrictive.