Font Awesome

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Font Awesome
Font Awesome 5 logo black.svg
Developer(s)Font Awesome Team
Initial release21 August 2012; 9 years ago (2012-08-21)
Stable release
5.15.3 / 16 March 2021; 5 months ago (2021-03-16)[1]
Repository
Operating systemCross-platform (web-based application)
LicenseFreemium
Websitefontawesome.com Edit this on Wikidata

Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and Less. As of 2020, Font Awesome was used by 38% of sites that use third-party font scripts, placing Font Awesome in second place after Google Fonts.[2]

History[]

It was made by Dave Gandy for use with Bootstrap.[3][better source needed] Font Awesome can be downloaded from BootstrapCDN.[citation needed]

Font Awesome 5 was released on December 7, 2017 with 1,278 icons.[4] 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.[5]

Font Awesome 6 is the next version which is planned to release in the second half of 2020. Their pre-order page states that users will be able to upload their own icons and receive more icons on top of the existing ones from Font Awesome 5.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Releases - FortAwesome/Font-Awesome". GitHub. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Global market share of Font Script technologies". Wappalyzer. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for Bootstrap". khan.github.io. Retrieved 2021-06-01. Made for Bootstrap. Designed from scratch to be fully compatible with Bootstrap 2.3.2.
  4. ^ "Font Awesome". Font Awesome. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  5. ^ "Pro License | Font Awesome". Font Awesome. 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  6. ^ "Font Awesome 6 Pre-Order". Font Awesome. Retrieved 2021-03-19.

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