Font Awesome

Font Awesome
Developer(s)	Font Awesome Team
Initial release	3 March 2012; 12 years ago
Stable release	6.5.1 / 11 November 2023; 8 months ago
Operating system	Cross-platform (web-based application)
License	Freemium

Short description: Font and icon toolkit based on CSS and Less

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]

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]

References

↑ "Font Awesome v1.0.0". 2022-02-02. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/releases/tag/v1.0.0.
↑ "Font Awesome". 2022-08-30. https://fontawesome.com/versions.
↑ "Global market share of Font Script technologies". Wappalyzer. https://www.wappalyzer.com/categories/font-scripts.
↑ "Font Awesome v1.0.0". 2022-02-02. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/releases/tag/v1.0.0.
↑ "Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for Bootstrap". https://khan.github.io/Font-Awesome/. "Made for Bootstrap. Designed from scratch to be fully compatible with Bootstrap 2.3.2."
↑ "BootstrapCDN - Font Awesome" (in en). https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/fontawesome/.
↑ "Font Awesome" (in en). https://fontawesome.com/.
↑ "Pro License | Font Awesome". 2018-07-12. https://fontawesome.com/license.
↑ "Font Awesome" (in en). https://fontawesome.com/versions.
↑ "Plans & Pricing / Font Awesome". https://fontawesome.com/pans. ^{[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]}
↑ "Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons". 16 March 2022. https://blog.fontawesome.com/humanitarian-icons/.

External links

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[1] "Font Awesome v1.0.0". 2022-02-02. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/releases/tag/v1.0.0.

[2] "Font Awesome". 2022-08-30. https://fontawesome.com/versions.

[3] "Global market share of Font Script technologies". Wappalyzer. https://www.wappalyzer.com/categories/font-scripts.

[4] "Font Awesome v1.0.0". 2022-02-02. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/releases/tag/v1.0.0.

[5] "Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for Bootstrap". https://khan.github.io/Font-Awesome/. "Made for Bootstrap. Designed from scratch to be fully compatible with Bootstrap 2.3.2."

[6] "BootstrapCDN - Font Awesome" (in en). https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/fontawesome/.

[7] "Font Awesome" (in en). https://fontawesome.com/.

[8] "Pro License | Font Awesome". 2018-07-12. https://fontawesome.com/license.

[9] "Font Awesome" (in en). https://fontawesome.com/versions.

[10] "Plans & Pricing / Font Awesome". https://fontawesome.com/pans. ^{[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]}

[11] "Font Awesome and OCHA Partner to Create Humanitarian Icons". 16 March 2022. https://blog.fontawesome.com/humanitarian-icons/.

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