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
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Font Awesome
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Font Awesome, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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database of icons
Very close cos 0.913 - 02
Canva
online graphic design platform
Very close cos 0.908 - 03
The FreeType Project
The FreeType Project: a free, high-quality and portable Font engine
Very close cos 0.899 - 04
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.
Very close cos 0.897 - 05
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.
Close cos 0.887 - 06
web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
Close cos 0.888 - 07
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close cos 0.888 - 08
jQuery
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Close cos 0.885 - 09
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.883 - 10
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.
Close cos 0.880 - 11
Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets
Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.
Close cos 0.884 - 12
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.
Close cos 0.881 - 13
Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.
Close cos 0.880 - 14
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).
Close cos 0.881 - 15
Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js
Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework
Close cos 0.874 - 16
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.
Close cos 0.876 - 17
SignUpGenius: Free Sign Up Sheets, Fundraisers & Online Payments
Create free sign up sheets, collect dues, run fundraisers, sell tickets, and more. Every way your group organizes and collects, in one place. Free to start.
Close cos 0.875 - 18
tawk.to - Free Live Chat Software for Your Website
One free inbox for all your customer channels. Live chat, ticketing, knowledge base, AI assist, and CRM — all in one place. Trusted by 6M+ businesses.
Close cos 0.876 - 19
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Close cos 0.876 - 20
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Close cos 0.876
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
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Payments
- Stripe page source: js.stripe.com/
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fb4a2c420b2f-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:he…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-832.awsdns-40.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ydXy9SAEDJ9azd61BFnFf2NhX_LQwoqr3HYGZM_XYYM
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Font Awesome adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on fontawesome.com 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Zendesk · not on fontawesome.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Apple Business · not on fontawesome.com 5/20
- OpenAI · not on fontawesome.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on fontawesome.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on fontawesome.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on fontawesome.com 4/20
- Google Analytics 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on fontawesome.com 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on fontawesome.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on fontawesome.com 3/20
- DocuSign · not on fontawesome.com 3/20