Font Awesome

2,883 free icons plus 609 brand marks; the full library is a paid subscription

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Font Awesome is the oldest widely-deployed icon toolkit, shipped as an icon font, plain SVGs and a JS/SVG renderer. The free package (@fortawesome/fontawesome-free 7.3.1) contains 2,883 icons: 2,001 Solid, 273 Regular and 609 Brands. Paid tiers unlock the rest of the ~16,000-icon library plus the Light, Thin, Duotone and Sharp families, hosted Kits, and icon subsetting. Free icons are CC BY 4.0, the fonts are OFL-1.1 and the code is MIT.

Install

npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-free

For an agent

Only reach for Font Awesome when the codebase already uses it or the task specifically needs its 609 brand marks — for generic UI glyphs Lucide or Iconify give you more, newer icons under a friendlier licence and with no attribution clause. If you must confirm an icon exists in the free tier, read `metadata/icons.yml` or the `svgs/{solid,regular,brands}` directories from the npm package instead of the website, which is an empty JS shell to any non-browser fetch. Watch the licence split: CC BY 4.0 means the free icons need attribution somewhere in your product, and any class name you find in a tutorial may silently be a Pro-only style (fa-light, fa-thin, fa-duotone, fa-sharp) that renders as a blank box.

Why it is here. It is the icon set that taught the web to use icon fonts, and it still has the deepest brand-logo coverage of any general toolkit. But it is now the only major set in this category where the good half is behind a paywall.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: CC BY, SIL Open Font License, MIT, Commercial license
Pricing: Freemium, Free, Subscription
Framework: Vanilla JS, React, Vue, Angular, Not applicable
Styling: Vanilla CSS, Not applicable
Distribution: npm package, Direct download / asset pack, GitHub repository, Web app / online tool, Hosted SaaS product
Platform: Web, Platform agnostic
Content type: Icons, Fonts / typefaces
Agent readiness: CLI installable, Readable open source, Structured documentation, Client-rendered shell, Agent access behind payment
Accessibility: Accessible
Maturity: Actively maintained
Pricing detail: Free tier is CC BY 4.0 with attribution. Pro is a per-seat annual subscription (widely reported at ~$120/user/year, with a Pro+ tier around $150) — fontawesome.com/plans renders client-side and returned only its <title> to every fetch, so these figures come from secondary sources and are NOT verified on the vendor page.
GitHub stars: 76,841
Package: @fortawesome/fontawesome-free

Components it ships

Icon

Notable for

2,883 free icons (2,001 solid, 273 regular, 609 brands)
~16,000 icons in the paid library
CC BY 4.0 free icons require attribution
Pro-only families: Light, Thin, Duotone, Sharp
marketing site is unreadable without JS

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-16. HTTP 200. https://fontawesome.com/ and https://fontawesome.com/plans (curl + WebFetch — both returned only the <title>, JS-only shell), https://fontawesome.com/search (WebFetch, same), https://blog.fontawesome.com/font-awesome-7-is-on-the-menu/ (WebFetch, v7 announcement), data.jsdelivr.com file listing for @fortawesome/fontawesome-free@7.3.1 (SVG counts per style), registry.npmjs.org/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/latest (version + licence string), gh api repos/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome, WebSearch for pricing

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