Font Awesome
Comprehensive icon library with SVG and CSS support for web and mobile applications.
UI components and icons npm (CC-BY-4.0 AND MIT)
Used in agent projects
100
0.8% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in ui components and icons
#25 of 75
by use in those projects
Downloads
2.8M
npm, last 7 days, @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons
GitHub stars
77K
last push Jul 15, 2026
How Font Awesome is used
Font Awesome is a dependency in 100 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.8%), #25 of 75 in ui components and icons. The most used alternative there is Lucide React. Projects that use it most often also use Tailwind CSS (65.0%), Axios (35.0%), ESLint (65.0%). It is more common in projects set up for Junie (8.2%) than for Claude Code (0.7%).
Often used with Font Awesome
| Tailwind CSS | 65.0% of Font Awesome projects · 1.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Axios | 35.0% of Font Awesome projects · 3.5× more than average |
| ESLint | 65.0% of Font Awesome projects · 1.7× more than average |
| React | 68.0% of Font Awesome projects · 1.6× more than average |
| React Router | 28.0% of Font Awesome projects · 3.7× more than average |
| React Icons | 21.0% of Font Awesome projects · 3.9× more than average |
| Vite | 40.0% of Font Awesome projects · 1.8× more than average |
| Framer Motion | 31.0% of Font Awesome projects · 2.3× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| Junie | 8.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Font Awesome as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons |
|---|---|
| Packages counted | @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons, @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core, @fortawesome/react-fontawesome, @fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons, @fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons, @fortawesome/fontawesome-free, @fortawesome/vue-fontawesome, @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome |
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (52), Next.js (31), PHP (9), Python (6) |
| Example projects | your-digital-rights/yourdigitalrights.org, Ortus-Solutions/ContentBox, SanderElias/Samples, solana-developers/cnft-minter-demo, achingachris/django-starter |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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2,519 (19.8%) | 108M | 24.9K | ISC |
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| cmdk npm Command menu component library for React applications. |
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| Vaul npm Unstyled, accessible drawer component for React with smooth animations. |
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