Font Awesome

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

Font Awesome

Developer(s)| Font Awesome Team
Initial release| 3 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 system| Cross-platform (web-based application)
License| Freemium

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/.

## External links

* on GitHub

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Free and open-source typography

Software and libraries|

* FontForge
* Fontmatrix
* FreeType
* Ghostscript
* HarfBuzz
* Metafont
* MetaPost
* METATYPE1
* Pango
* TeX
* Graphite (SIL)
* ICU

Licenses|

* Apache License
* BSD licenses
* Creative Commons licenses
* GNU General Public License \+ GPL font exception
* GNU Lesser General Public License
* LaTeX Project Public License
* MIT License
* SIL Open Font License
* Ubuntu Font Licence

Operating system,
corporate and
professional|

* Bitstream Charter
* Bitstream Vera
* DejaVu
* Breeze Sans
* Cascadia Code
* Cantarell
* Charis SIL
* Computer Modern
* Concrete Roman
* Courier Prime
* Doulos SIL
* Droid
* Noto
* Open Sans
* Fira Sans
* Ghostscript fonts
* GNU FreeFont
* GNU Unifont
* Hershey fonts
* IBM Plex
* Liberation
* Croscore
* Literata
* Lohit
* Nimbus Mono
* Sans
* Roman
* OCR-A
* OCR-B
* Overpass
* PT Fonts
* Roboto
* Selawik
* Source Code
* Source Han Sans
* Source Han Serif
* Source Sans
* Source Serif
* STIX fonts
* Tiresias
* Ubuntu, Ubuntu Titling
* Utopia
* WenQuanYi
* Zilla Slab

Other
typefaces|

* Amiri
* Antykwa Półtawskiego
* Allerta
* Asana-Math
* Cardo
* Chandas
* Comic Neue
* Cormorant
* EB Garamond
* Gentium
* Inconsolata
* IM Fell
* Jomolhari
* Junicode
* Kochi
* Lato
* Linux Libertine
* M+
* News Cycle
* Open Baskerville
* OpenDyslexic
* Railway Sans
* Squarish Sans CT
* Theano Didot
* XITS

Groups and
people|

* Donald Knuth
* Font Awesome
* Greek Font Society
* Font Library
* Google Fonts
* SIL International

* Open-source Unicode typefaces
* List of open source typefaces
* List of free software Unicode typefaces

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