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Font Awesome

Topic: Software

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Short description: Font and icon toolkit based on CSS and Less
Font Awesome
Font Awesome 5 logo black.svg
Developer(s)Font Awesome Team
Initial release3 March 2012; 12 years ago (2012-03-03)[1]
Stable release
6.5.1 / 11 November 2023; 8 months ago (2023-11-11)[2]
Operating systemCross-platform (web-based application)
LicenseFreemium

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

  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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