Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Font Awesome

The 20 closest icon library alternatives to Font Awesome, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Font Awesome? The closest matches are Flaticon, Canva and freetype.org. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Font Awesome

Font Awesome fontawesome.com

Font Awesome

The internet's icon library + toolkit. Used by millions of designers, devs, & content creators. Open-source. Always free. Always awesome.

Wikidata: font and icon toolkit

Top 1K · #712 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Font Awesome

Summary by Claude

An icon library and toolkit delivered as web fonts, SVGs and JavaScript/CSS, with a free open-source set and paid Pro icon packs for use in websites, apps and designs.

Who it’s for
Web developers and designers
Business model
Freemium subscriptions (Pro plans)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Font Awesome’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

JSTORibisPaintHtml5 upweb.devwallpapers.comDaFontFigmafreetype.orgCanvaFlaticon

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Font Awesome

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Font Awesome, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Flaticon flaticon.com Top 10K English

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    database of icons

  2. 02
    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

  3. 03
    freetype.org Top 10K English

    The FreeType Project

    The FreeType Project: a free, high-quality and portable Font engine

  4. 04
    Figma figma.com Top 1K English

    Figma: The collaborative canvas for design, code, and AI

    Figma is the canvas where design, code, and AI come together. From first idea to shipped product — go from concept to production with your whole team, in one place.

  5. 05
    DaFont dafont.com Top 10K German

    DaFont - Schriftarten zum Download

    Ein Archiv kostenlos herunterladbarer Schriftarten. Durchsuchen Sie nach alphabetischer Reihenfolge, Stil, Autor oder Popularität.

  6. 06
    wallpapers.com Top 10K English

    Wallpapers.com | 1,500,000+ Free HD Wallpapers for Desktop, Mobiles & Tablets

    Download free HD, 4K and 8K wallpapers for desktop, mobile and tablet. 1.5M+ wallpapers across 70K+ categories - no sign-up, no watermark.

  7. 07
    web.dev Top 10K English

    web.dev

    Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.

  8. 08
    Html5 up html5up.net Top 10K

    HTML5 UP! Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 Site Templates

    Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates designed by @ajlkn.

  9. 09
    ibisPaint ibispaint.com Top 10K Japanese

    ibisPaint - Draw and Paint App

    Drawn with + ibisPaint

  10. 10
    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

  11. 11
    jQuery jquery.com Top 1K English

    jQuery

    jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

  12. 12
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  13. 13
    getbootstrap.com Top 10K English

    Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world.

    Powerful, extensible, and feature-packed frontend toolkit. Build and customize with Sass, utilize prebuilt grid system and components, and bring projects to life with powerful JavaScript plugins.

  14. 14
    Envato® envato.com Top 10K English

    Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets

    Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.

  15. 15
    W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English

    W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

    Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.

  16. 16
    Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com Top 10K English

    Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

    Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.

  17. 17
    Codecademy codecademy.com Top 10K English

    Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy

    Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).

  18. 18
    Facemoji Keyboard facemojikeyboard.com Top 10K

    Facemoji – Free Font & Emoji Generator, Hashtags, Captions & Bio Tools | Facemoji Keyboard

    Explore Facemoji Keyboard’s free AI tools including font and emoji generators, emoji and text art collections, and AI social media tools. Instantly create hashtags, captions, and bios for Instagram, TikTok, and Include more social platforms.

  19. 19
    Vue.js vuejs.org Top 10K English

    Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js

    Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework

  20. 20
    Infogram infogram.com Top 10K English

    Turn Data Into Interactive Stories | Infogram

    Create interactive charts, maps, infographics, reports and more. Share and embed anywhere. All AI powered from charts to infographics.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to fontawesome.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Font Awesome uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Font Awesome is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://fontawesome.com/js/settings-b5fd5783ceac8386e6b9b2dd86b5509d.js?vsn=d
Analytics
Payments
  • Stripe page source: js.stripe.com/
CDN
Email hosting
Email delivery
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Stack changes

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