// COMPARISON

Font Awesome vs Lucide Icons (2026)

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

Font Awesome

2,058

icons

⭐ 76,500 stars

VS

Lucide Icons

1,400

icons

⭐ 12,000 stars

FEATURE COMPARISON

FEATURE

Font Awesome

Lucide Icons

Total Icons

★2,058

1,400

GitHub Stars

★76,500

12,000

License

Mixed (CC BY 4.0 free icons, MIT code)

ISC

TypeScript

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Tree Shakable

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Figma Plugin

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Styles

solid, regular, light, thin, duotone, brands

outline

Frameworks

react, vue, angular, svelte

★react, vue, svelte, nextjs

CHOOSE FONT AWESOME IF...

→Extensive Library

→Infinite Scalability

→CSS Customization

→Ease of Integration

→Accessibility-Minded

CHOOSE LUCIDE ICONS IF...

→Actively maintained

→Consistent style

→TypeScript support

→Tree-shakable

Font Awesome

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

Lucide Icons

npm install lucide-react