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FortAwesome Font-Awesome

The iconic SVG, font, and CSS toolkit

Stars

76,900

Popular

Forks

12,181

Watchers: 76,900

Repository Radar Score

57 / 100

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Score breakdown

  • popularity 91
  • growth 0
  • activity 55
  • freshness 100
  • community 87

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Font Awesome Free

Version 7

Font Awesome is the Internet's icon library and toolkit, used by millions of designers, developers, and content creators.

Documentation

Learn how to get started with Font Awesome and then dive deeper into other and advanced topics:

Docs for version 7

Where did Font Awesome 6, 5, 4 (or 3) go?

Now that Font Awesome 7 has been released we are marking version 6 as Long Term Support (LTS). Version 6 will get critical bug fixes only. Version 3, 4, and 5 are now end-of-life and we don't plan on releasing any further versions of these.

You can see a complete list of versions on our Versions page.

Change log

The change log for releases is now available directly on our site.

Looking for older versions of Font Awesome? Check the releases.

Upgrading

From time-to-time we'll have special upgrading instructions from one version to the next.

Code of conduct

We will behave ourselves if you behave yourselves. For more details see our CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

Contributing

Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues.

Versioning

Font Awesome will be maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines as much as possible. Releases will be numbered with the following format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

For more information on SemVer, please visit https://semver.org.

The major version "7" is part of an umbrella release. It includes many different types of files and technologies. Therefore we deviate from normal SemVer in the following ways:

  • Any release may update the design, look-and-feel, or branding of an existing icon
  • We will never intentionally release a patch version update that breaks backward compatibility
  • A minor release may include backward-incompatible changes but we will write clear upgrading instructions in UPGRADING.md
  • A minor or patch release will never remove icons
  • Bug fixes will be addressed as patch releases unless they include backward incompatibility then they will be minor releases

License

Font Awesome Free is free, open source, and GPL friendly. You can use it for commercial projects, open source projects, or really almost whatever you want.

  • Icons — CC BY 4.0 License
    • In the Font Awesome Free download, the CC BY 4.0 license applies to all icons packaged as .svg and .js files types.
  • Fonts — SIL OFL 1.1 License
    • In the Font Awesome Free download, the SIL OFL license applies to all icons packaged as web and desktop font files.
  • Code — MIT License
    • In the Font Awesome Free download, the MIT license applies to all non-font and non-icon files.

Attribution is required by MIT, SIL OFL, and CC BY licenses. Downloaded Font Awesome Free files already contain embedded comments with sufficient attribution, so you shouldn't need to do anything additional when using these files normally.

We've kept attribution comments terse, so we ask that you do not actively work to remove them from files, especially code. They're a great way for folks to learn about Font Awesome.

Team

https://github.com/orgs/FortAwesome/people

Created: Feb 17, 2012

Last push: Jul 15, 2026

Default branch: 7.x

Latest release: 7.3.1

Languages

Share of the codebase by language, based on repository metadata from the host.

  • JavaScript 85.0%
  • SCSS 7.7%
  • CSS 7.3%

Repository Radar analysis

Deterministic insights derived from public metadata and our observations — not personal testing or reviews.

Why this repository is interesting

  • High absolute popularity (76,900 stars) signals broad adoption.

Who should use it

  • Developers working primarily with JavaScript

Potential use cases

  • Reference or evaluate JavaScript open-source approaches in this domain

Strengths

  • README present in our index
  • Declared license: Other
  • Substantial fork count (12,181) suggests reuse and contribution interest

Limitations / considerations

  • Insights are derived from public metadata and our observations — not a substitute for code review

What to watch

  • Re-check last push, issues, and releases on GitHub before production adoption

Strong signals: Strong community interest

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