Font Awesome

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Font Awesome
Developer(s) Font Awesome Team
Initial release3 March 2012;11 years ago (2012-03-03) [1]
Stable release
6.5.1 / 11 November 2023;38 days ago (2023-11-11) [2]
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 Less. As of 2023, Font Awesome was used by 30% 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 for use with Bootstrap. [4] [5] Font Awesome can be downloaded from BootstrapCDN. [6]

Font Awesome 5 was released on December 7, 2017, with 1,278 icons. [7] 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. [8]

Font Awesome 6 is the latest version which was released in February 2022. [9] Users will be able to upload their own icons and receive more icons on top of the existing ones from Font Awesome 5. [10]

On March 16, 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. [11]

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