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Font Awesome vs Phosphor Icons (2026)

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

Font Awesome

2,058

icons

⭐ 76,500 stars

VS

Phosphor Icons

1,248

icons

⭐ 8,000 stars

FEATURE COMPARISON

FEATURE

Font Awesome

Phosphor Icons

Total Icons

★2,058

1,248

GitHub Stars

★76,500

8,000

License

Mixed (CC BY 4.0 free icons, MIT code)

MIT

TypeScript

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Tree Shakable

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Figma Plugin

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Styles

solid, regular, light, thin, duotone, brands

thin, light, regular, bold, fill, duotone

Frameworks

★react, vue, angular, svelte

react, vue, nextjs

CHOOSE FONT AWESOME IF...

→Extensive Library

→Infinite Scalability

→CSS Customization

→Ease of Integration

→Accessibility-Minded

CHOOSE PHOSPHOR ICONS IF...

→6 weight variants

→Duotone support

→Large collection

Font Awesome

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

Phosphor Icons

npm install @phosphor-icons/react