// COMPARISON

Font Awesome vs React Icons (2026)

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

Font Awesome

2,058

icons

⭐ 76,500 stars

VS

React Icons

40,000

icons

⭐ 11,500 stars

FEATURE COMPARISON

FEATURE

Font Awesome

React Icons

Total Icons

2,058

★40,000

GitHub Stars

★76,500

11,500

License

Mixed (CC BY 4.0 free icons, MIT code)

MIT

TypeScript

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Tree Shakable

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Figma Plugin

★✓ Yes

✗ No

Styles

solid, regular, light, thin, duotone, brands

outline, filled, duotone, brands

Frameworks

★react, vue, angular, svelte

react, nextjs

CHOOSE FONT AWESOME IF...

→Extensive Library

→Infinite Scalability

→CSS Customization

→Ease of Integration

→Accessibility-Minded

CHOOSE REACT ICONS IF...

→One package replaces 25+ separate installs

→40,000+ icons — largest vocabulary available

→Unified API across all included sets

→Full TypeScript support

Font Awesome

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

React Icons

npm install react-icons