Font Awesome

Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and Less. As of 2020, Font Awesome was used by 38% of sites that use third-party font scripts, placing Font Awesome in second place after Google Fonts.[2]

Font Awesome
Developer(s)Font Awesome Team
Initial release21 August 2012 (2012-08-21)
Stable release
5.15.3 / 16 March 2021 (2021-03-16)[1]
Repository
Operating systemCross-platform (web-based application)
LicenseFreemium
Websitefontawesome.com 

History

It was made by Dave Gandy for use with Bootstrap.[3] Font Awesome can be downloaded from BootstrapCDN.[4]

Font Awesome 5 was released on December 7, 2017 with 1,278 icons.[5] Version 5 comes in two packages: Font Awesome Free and the proprietary Font Awesome Pro (available for a fee). The free versions (all releases up to 4 and the free version for 5) are available under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, and MIT License.[6]

Font Awesome 6 is the next version which is planned to release in the second half of 2020. Their pre-order page states that users will be able to upload their own icons and receive more icons on top of the existing ones from Font Awesome 5.[7]

References
  1. "Releases - FortAwesome/Font-Awesome". GitHub. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  2. "Global market share of Font Script technologies". Wappalyzer. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  3. "Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for Bootstrap". khan.github.io. Retrieved 2021-06-01. Made for Bootstrap. Designed from scratch to be fully compatible with Bootstrap 2.3.2.
  4. "BootstrapCDN - Font Awesome". www.bootstrapcdn.com. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  5. "Font Awesome". Font Awesome. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  6. "Pro License | Font Awesome". Font Awesome. 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  7. "Font Awesome 6 Pre-Order". Font Awesome. Retrieved 2021-03-19.


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