Font Awesome

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Font Awesome
Developer(s) Font Awesome Team
Initial release3 March 2012;13 years ago (2012-03-03) [1]
Stable release
7.0.0 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 22 July 2025
Repository
Operating system Cross-platform (web-based application)
License Freemium
Website fontawesome.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and JavaScript. As of 2024, Font Awesome was used by 25.4% of sites that use third-party font scripts, placing Font Awesome in second place after Google Fonts. [3]

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History

It was made by Dave Gandy originally for use with Bootstrap. [1] [4] Font Awesome can be downloaded from BootstrapCDN. [5]

Font Awesome 5 was released on 7 December 2017, with 1,278 icons. [6] Version 5 comes in two packages: Font Awesome Free and the proprietary Font Awesome Pro (available for $120 a year). The free versions (all releases up to 4 and the Free version for 5, 6, and 7) are available under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, and the MIT License. [7]

Font Awesome 7 is the latest version which was released in July 2025. [8] Users will be able to upload their own icons and receive more icons on top of the existing ones from Font Awesome 6. [9]

On 16 March 2022, Font Awesome announced a collaboration with United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for humanitarian icons in Font Awesome 6.1.0. [10]

Font Awesome released the rest of the Duotone styles for both the Duotone and Sharp Duotone families. The price for Font Awesome Pro Lite, Pro, and Pro Max will increase from $49, $99 and $499 a year to $60, $120 and $600 a year starting in 2025. [11]

In Font Awesome 7, the Pro+ tiers of plans were introduced, Pro Lite+, Pro+ and Pro Max+ at $75, $150 and $750 a year. It gives you access to new icon packs, which contains a curated collection of 200 of the most common icons needed for app and web design. There currently are 7 icon packs: Chisel, Etch, Jelly, Notdog, Slab, Thumbprint, and Whiteboard. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Font Awesome v1.0.0". GitHub. 2 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Release 7.0.0". 22 July 2025. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  3. ↑ "Global market share of Font Script technologies". Wappalyzer. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for Bootstrap". khan.github.io. Retrieved 1 June 2021. Made for Bootstrap. Designed from scratch to be fully compatible with Bootstrap 2.3.2.
  5. ↑ "BootstrapCDN - Font Awesome". www.bootstrapcdn.com. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "Font Awesome". Font Awesome. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Pro License | Font Awesome". Font Awesome. 12 July 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Font Awesome Versions". Font Awesome. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  9. ↑ "Plans & Pricing / Font Awesome". Font Awesome. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  10. ↑ Raphael, Jory (16 March 2022). "Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons". Blog Awesome. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  11. ↑ Font, Awesome (20 November 2024). "No, You're Not Seeing Double. We Just Added the Remaining Duotone Styles!". Blog Awesome. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  12. ↑ Font, Awesome (2 April 2025). "Font Awesome 7 Is on the Menu — and This One's a Full Meal Deal". Blog Awesome. Retrieved 1 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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