// COMPARISON

Font Awesome vs Bootstrap Icons (2026)

A detailed comparison of Font Awesome and Bootstrap Icons covering icon count, TypeScript support, bundle size, framework compatibility and more.

Font Awesome

2,058

icons

⭐ 76,500 stars

VS

Bootstrap Icons

1,800

icons

⭐ 7,000 stars

FEATURE COMPARISON

FEATURE

Font Awesome

Bootstrap Icons

Total Icons

★2,058

1,800

GitHub Stars

★76,500

7,000

License

Mixed (CC BY 4.0 free icons, MIT code)

MIT

TypeScript

★✓ Yes

✗ No

Tree Shakable

★✓ Yes

✗ No

Figma Plugin

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Styles

solid, regular, light, thin, duotone, brands

outline, filled

Frameworks

★react, vue, angular, svelte

react, vue, nextjs

CHOOSE FONT AWESOME IF...

→Extensive Library

→Infinite Scalability

→CSS Customization

→Ease of Integration

→Accessibility-Minded

CHOOSE BOOTSTRAP ICONS IF...

→1800+ icons

→Both styles

→Backed by Bootstrap team

Font Awesome

npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons @fortawesome/react-fontawesome

Bootstrap Icons

npm install bootstrap-icons